SaaS Growth: How SaaS Businesses Grow from Zero to $30M ARR and Beyond

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One thing I find interesting is that there is a greater then 50% chance that a viable SaaS business will grow to $1M ARR in less then 3 years (Time to $1M ARR chart) since the median is 3 years. So half the surviving companies are above the median, right?

However only 17% of businesses will reach $1M ARR within 3 years (Milestone Success Rate chart). I'm not sure what to make of those numbers. It feels like there is something missing here. Is one of those numbers accounting for failed businesses?

Hey programd, it's just different populations.

So the median time to reach $1M ARR only considers companies that reached $1M ARR while the % of startups that reach $1M ARR considers all startups.

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