B
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60 -- cac payback period for typical B2B SaaS company (2024)
The typical company now needs 60 months (5 years) to recoup customer acquisition costs (CAC payback).
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60
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Duration Months
Data Vintage
2024
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Topline (Asher Mathew / Leandro Perez)
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Tier C
https://topline.beehiiv.com/p/the-cac-slope-of-pain-a-data-driven-guide-to-growth-vectors ↗
Source Article
The CAC Slope of Pain: A Data Driven Guide To Growth Vectors
I was recently catching up with the CRO of a $35M ARR business. He had taken over 2 years ago when the company was barely growing. His mission was to reignite growth and in less than 24 months the company was back on track, growing at 40%/Y - mission accomplished!
But now the company was at a crossr…
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Topline (Asher Mathew / Leandro Perez)
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Cited in newsletter commentary referencing industry data (Jamin Ball, Benchmarkit, KBCM, Forrester, McKinsey)
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typical B2B SaaS company: 60 cac payback period. Source: Topline (Asher Mathew / Leandro Perez) (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cac-payback-60-months-2024
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