Recently, Heavybit in San Francisco invited me to talk about The Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100m ARR. While that’s a great headline, really it’s a bit broad so I narrowed it to my top 10 mistakes getting to the first $20m in ARR.
To make it even better, I grabbed a real-live case study to add to my mistakes — Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO of Algolia. Algolia is a hosted search-as-a-service startup has gone from essentially $0 to millions in ARR in the past 12 months (my original post on why I invested here) and just raised $18 million from Accel on the back of that early success and impressive MoM growth.
Anyhow Nicolas has made plenty of mistakes himself, but thankfully — not all of my Top 10. 🙂 Perhaps that’s one small reason they’ve done substantially better than I did at this stage.
If you’ve read SaaStr for a while you’ve seen most of the Top 10, but watching and hearing from them in context, with updates and deeper dives, and with Algolia added as a case study I think is pretty interesting.
The video also includes a full transcript for those of you like me who have trouble sitting still for that long. Click on the image below or here to watch and read.
