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What it takes to go public today - Jack Newton, CEO at CLIO

24 May 2024 · 1 min

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Brief excerpt from Jack Newton (CEO of Clio) discussing how the revenue expectations for SaaS companies considering an IPO have risen over the past 20 years. He states that roughly 10 years ago the baseline was about $100M ARR, about $200M ARR five years ago, and today companies need roughly $400–$500M ARR to consider going public.

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$100 million ARR

$200 million ARR

$400–$500 million ARR

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What's changed dramatically over the last 20 years is companies used to get around to VC funding and go public. And that was how you created liquidity for your investors. That's right. And over the time I've been building Clio that the baseline for what a public SaaS company could be from a, from a revenue perspective went from $100 million of AR, you know, maybe 10 years ago to $200 million of air are five years ago to now. I think you need to be in the 400 to $500 million of ARR to think about going public.