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🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Ashely Rose is the CEO of Living Security, where she helps companies reduce risk by making security awareness engaging and quantifiable.
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0:00.0 | Living security playing the cybersecurity space doing 10 grand a month a year ago, now up to $115,000 |
0:05.2 | a month. So 10x year-over-year growth. They're currently raising their series A pretty far down |
0:08.9 | that path, targeting $5 to $8 million raise at north of a 10x revenue multiple. Their economics |
0:13.2 | makes so much sense. Even though one-fourth of their revenue is professional services in the form |
0:17.0 | of escape rooms, they bring on- site to companies to do security training and then |
0:21.5 | upsell the SaaS product. They have a team of 18 people right now, two quota carrying reps, |
0:25.6 | including their first VP of sales, and obviously the founder included in there as well. |
0:28.7 | And what's remarkable here is the upsell revenue from the escape room to the software is |
0:32.5 | really high. And that has led to between 300 and 400% net revenue retention annually and a CAC payback period of under |
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1:04.4 | to produce high quality shows in the future. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Ashley Rose as the CEO of Living Security. Ashley is |
1:13.1 | passionate about helping companies build positive security cultures. An adaptable problem solver, |
1:17.7 | she is thoughtful and transparent in our approach to running the company and working with clients |
1:20.7 | sort of a singular goal to reduce risk by making security awareness engaging and quantifiable. |
1:26.8 | Ashley, ready to take us to the top? |
1:28.4 | Yes, absolutely. |
1:29.4 | So how should we think about this? |
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