Jason Lemkin examines SaaS companies serving non-tech customers like churches and real-estate firms. Toast hit record quarters despite losing some seats, while only 30% of Monday.com's revenue comes from tech companies. These firms weathered recent downturns better than pure-tech SaaS.
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So if you look at SaaS companies that sell to the real world, that don't just sell to other tech, in many cases they didn't miss a beat. I mean, Toast had a little bit of impact, but look at Toast. Toast just had a record quarter. Folks, they did see some seat contraction, but overall the business did not miss a beat any of the last quarters. Because Monday doesn't sell— only 30% of Monday is to tech for project management and CRM. 70%, as he said, is to churches and real estate and other normal businesses. I picked two that are somewhat impacted, and I picked Samsara, which if you don't know, uh, I mean, at a, at a, at a specific level, it automates fleet management and more. Uh, and, and it's interesting that you can see it's a hot one. We've written them up at Saastr since the beginning when people didn't know about it. We had the chief product officer here yesterday, but you can see actually they hit their low point a little earlier than we saw with Zoom and ZoomInfo and others. They hit it actually in Q2 of 2022 where this high flyer's growth sort of came down to earth.