Video ID: f2Hq3XemPBE
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Hq3XemPBE
Added At: 23-07-25 11:17:20
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Categories: Business
Tags: ipo, software, design, sas
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Figma just filed for IPO and the numbers they revealed are crazy. We're talking $821 million in revenue last year growing at 46% annually with a whopping 91% gross margins. That means for every $100 they make, they keep $91 after basic costs. And it doesn't stop there. With about 18% operating margin, they're sitting on about $1.5 billion in cash with zero debt. It's insane because we're talking about a software company that makes design tools, not some clunky enterprise solutions. But how how does a design app make the kind of money most companies can only dream of? Well, it's because software doesn't scale like physical products. Imagine it like this. If you're selling chairs, every new customer means building and shipping a new chair. But with SAS, it's different. You only need to build it once. Then whether you have 1,000 users or 10 million, the cost barely changes. And that's what gives SAS such high margins. Once you have enough of a user base, the margins become very high. And Figma is the perfect example. But even with all that baked in efficiency, Figma had some smart product decisions too. Like instead of stopping at just one design tool, they started layering other products on top of it. Like they added Fig Jam for whiteboarding, dev mode for engineers, and slides for creating internal decks. Now, if you think about it, that's pure genius because this way Figma is able to increase its revenue by increasing its revenue per user, not necessarily by adding new users. And the numbers show about 76% of Figma customers now use two or more of their products, leading to a whopping 132% net dollar retention. Basically, it's the amount of money you're making from your existing customers. And this is what Peak SAS looks like. Figma worked because they figured out real-time collaboration in the browser itself, something no one else had done