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37signals Releases Backpack Financial Numbers
- stillmotion 19y agoMisleading title. They only shared the numbers from yesterday.
- alaskamiller 19y agomy random guesses for their revenue: - basecamp: $550,000/yr - signal vs noise (jobboard + deck): $200,000/yr - backpack: existing + new customers = $100,000/yr - highrise: $100,000/yr - campfire / writeboard / ta-da list: $75,000/yr - get real book: $75,000, span of its entire publication run 37s is at least a 1 mil a year company
- stillmotion 19y agoI think Basecamp makes boat loads more than we realize. That's why they're so secretive about the numbers.
- pius 19y agoOr quite the opposite.
- blamfilter 19y agoI think you are off by a factor of 5-7x
- pius 19y agoI think you're closer than Alaska is. A million dollars a year is nothing when you've got nine high-profile employees in Chicago. Jason Fried is good enough of a business person that he's not going to run a firm with dangerously low margins.
- redorb 19y ago37signals / basically the google of the SAAS model.
- martin 19y agoIsn't Google the Google of the SaaS model?
- spolsky 19y agoif you're really determined to figure out their revenue, work your way backwards from their 9 employees. Most software companies take in $100,000-$200,000/yr per employee per year in top line revenue.
- wisernow 19y agoExcellent point. My guess is that they could be a bit higher, up to 300K per employee (that would be a somewhat exceptional, I grant you). $300K estimate would give $2.7 million per year.