The strength of our culture is key to attracting and retaining the best talent, as demonstrated by our high employee retention rates, and, as of January 31, 2019, a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 out of 5 and 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer.
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#132017: $79.6M revenue, ($38M)in losses. 9 months of 2018: $84M revenue, ($34.5M) in losses. Costs seem generally under control except the significant growth (+66%) in G&A expenses. Why the hurry to IPO?
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#142017: $79.6M revenue, ($38M)in losses. 9 months of 2018: $84M revenue, ($34.5M) in losses. Costs seem generally under control except the significant growth (+66%) in G&A expenses. Why the hurry to IPO?
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#152017: $79.6M revenue, ($38M)in losses. 9 months of 2018: $84M revenue, ($34.5M) in losses. Costs seem generally under control except the significant growth (+66%) in G&A expenses. Why the hurry to IPO?
Good market now, bad market likely in a year or two.
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#16Professional marketer perspective: Sales and Marketing is around 60% of revenue at 47 million a year. Advertising is around 5 million a year, so the rest of the spend looks like sales costs, content production, and maybe event marketing. The media spend seems to be mostly adwords: "The effectiveness of our online advertising has varied over time and may vary in the future due to competition for key search terms, chan…
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#17PagerDuty feels like abandonware. It hasn't changed in the last 4-5 years.
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#18Interesting that they reference their Glassdoor rating: The strength of our culture is key to attracting and retaining the best talent, as demonstrated by our high employee retention rates, and, as of January 31, 2019, a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 out of 5 and 100% approval rating of our chief executive officer.
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#19Professional marketer perspective: Sales and Marketing is around 60% of revenue at 47 million a year. Advertising is around 5 million a year, so the rest of the spend looks like sales costs, content production, and maybe event marketing. The media spend seems to be mostly adwords: "The effectiveness of our online advertising has varied over time and may vary in the future due to competition for key search terms, chan…
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#20PagerDuty feels like abandonware. It hasn't changed in the last 4-5 years.
Agreed, too many good open source solutions now. No one thinks of alerting as paging anymore. You can use email to text now, chat solutions like Slack/Mattermost/etc. You no longer need an SMS gateway and if you do then Prometheus supports Twilio. All PagerDuty has going for it is a sales team trying to get managers to sign up for a service before exploring alternatives.