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SaaStr
MARCH 31, 2021
Even ten years on, in 2015, it still had just 10 full-time employees. from 2015 to 2016 … and then exploded: UIPath History. 2015: $1m rev. And then after a decade … it started to come together. Revenue grew nicely at first from $1m to $3.5m 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. 2014: $500k rev. seed round.
SaaStr
AUGUST 30, 2021
From 10,000 customers in 2015 to 50,000 in 2021. Freshworks quintupled its customer base from 2015 to 2021. And Freshssales is the smallest of its big 3 products, but even there, they have 6,500 customers today, vs. 8,900 on Freshservice and 35,800 on Freshdesk. #5. Just a visceral reminder of how things compound in SaaS.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
at IPO in 2015. Atlassian was worth $4B at IPO in 2015. Square was worth $3B at IPO in 2015. It IPO'd in 2015 at $1.2B. More incredible is how they got there, and how they grew post-IPO: Shopify was worth $1.2B Power laws are everywhere. And if you really have something in SaaS, it can just get better and better.
Tom Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
It formed the basis for a career at HubSpot predicated on consistent quantitative analysis to scale the go-to-market, which he detailed in the Sales Acceleration Formula in 2015. Mark Roberge ran this regression in Excel about 10 years ago. I think it’s still one of the best books on how to repeatably scale sales teams.
Tom Tunguz
JULY 30, 2021
I wrote a post in 2015 called The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising that examined the disparity between the number of growth rounds and unicorns versus the number of IPOs. VC fundraising will achieve a record. Valuations are at decade highs. There are 3-5 financings and M&A every working day.
Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 17, 2021
Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C.
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 17, 2022
Series A has dropped from 30% to 20%; Series B from 22.5% to 12%; and Series C from 18% to 11%. Across financing rounds, dilution from capital has fallen by 30-50% in that decade. Cumulative Dilution Points. Here’s a table of cumulative dilution points for a hypothetical startup raising 4 rounds in one year.
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