3// also of note, the Company spends $6 on S&M per $1 spent on R&D. Clearly the product team is super efficient. Effective and massive S&M budget of $300m+ run rate —> 120% growth with 140% annual net expansion. Ridiculous execution 📈
1// Of all the S-1s this year (Uber, Lyft, Pagerduty, Slack, etc.) & the 17 others in SaaS in 2018, Zoom is
#1
in growth rate by a wide margin (120% growth, next closest is Slack and Pagerduty in 50s%; for 2018, Elastic at 70%). It’s also
#1
in 2019 for profit margin by a large..
2// margin and it’s the only one in 2019 that’s FCF+ — so undoubtedly an A++ financial profile and probably the closest thing to venture growth rates in the public markets (will be
#1
in the Bessemer cloud index of 49 recent software companies by 50% over the
#2
(Elastic)).