Chris Marentis
- CEO and Founder at Surefire Local
GetLatka talk
How Surefire Local Reached $26M ARR with 75% Growth Using a Transactional Sales Model (Talk by CEO Chris Marentis)
Chris Marentis (CEO and Founder of Surefire Local) gave a talk on September 1, 2022.
Surefire Local figures from the talk
- ARR (2022)
- $26M
- Annual Growth (2022)
- 75%
- Gross Churn (new cohorts) (2022)
- 2.5%
- Year Founded
- 2010
“Right now, we're actually sitting at about 26,000,000 in ARR.”
“The new customers, meaning brought on from 2020 forward, those cohorts are doing incredibly well and are at 2.5% gross churn, and we're starting to get towards 1% net churn with those new cohorts.”
“I 5x'd the value of my company. So some people said you're taking that venture debt, it's gonna be really expensive for you, right? I mean, you're paying sometimes all in 17%. But when you think about the valuation in three years of my company and what we've done, it really was super efficient way to do it.”
Bio
Chris is a technology entrepreneur and business leader on a mission to help small businesses leverage the power of digital transformation. As the founder and CEO of Surefire Local, he has focused the company’s efforts to build powerful marketing solutions that give small businesses cost-effective, easy-to-use tools only available to the big guys. The motivation for Surefire Local was born out of Chris’s background in a multigenerational small business home. Prior to founding Surefire Local, Chris was the CEO of Add This and held leadership positions at AOL.