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Thanks to Chargebee, Deel, Lark, and Vanta for Sponsoring SaaStr APAC 2023!

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At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Grab tickets here. .

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. When you add in payments, i.e. merchant services, NRR for 2018+ is about 110%, based on the below new chart.

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UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

In 2021, the business counted more than 8000 customers, with 1000 paying more than $100k and 89 paying more than $1m. The company also mentions the 2016 cohort of customers expanded 51x in the last 5 years. Larger enterprise contracts imply longer contract terms and larger pre-payments, boosting these figures.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue? ARR now really means revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). .

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. Mediocre margins in payments. And a few bonus notes: #6.

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5 Interesting Learnings from AppFolio at $660,000,000 in “ARR”

SaaStr

market cap (11x) – Growing 29% a year — efficiently – Only 30% of revenue from software, rest payments + services – 20% Free Cash Flow, 16% non-GAAP margins – Frozen… pic.twitter.com/8PLvYP1JRz — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? 5 Most of Their Revenue, Like Shopify and Bill, is Not From Software.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Instructure at $620,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was founded in 2008 but took a while to get going, hitting $1m in revenue in 2011 selling to Utah schools — and then scaled from there. It rocketed to $100m in ARR just 5 years later in 2016. That’s the power of compounding revenue in SaaS! big balloon payment to pay it all off comes in 2028.

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