Going Upmarket, How To Keep Growing When Your Buyer Is No Longer Your User

2 Jan 2019 · 41 min
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Panel discussion (SaaStr) between investor Vas Natarajan (Accel) and Darrell Benatar (co-founder & CEO of UserTesting) about transitioning a SaaS business from SMB/pay-as-you-go to enterprise customers. Key points: early product-market fit came from designers and UX teams using pay-as-you-go; a defining pull to enterprise occurred around $1–2M ARR when a Cisco buyer converted to a $25k/year enterprise seat; moving upmarket required deliberate changes in pricing/value metrics, sales motions (inside → field sales, solutions consultants), professional services/enablement, and product hardening (security, SSO, audit logging). Tensions include balancing self-serve $49 offerings with enterprise pricing, deciding which enterprise requests to prioritize vs. roadmap integrity, and preserving the original user experience focus while scaling enterprise revenue.

Questions this video answers

January 2, 2019.

Between $1 and $2 million in sales (ARR).

$25,000 per year (enterprise version).

A $49 pay-as-you-go offering.

About eight and a half years.

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