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VC + Talent Management: Marc Andreessen Interviews Mike Ovitz

Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975. Under his leadership, the company became the world’s leading entertainment and sports agency. Almost 25 years later, Marc Andreessen launched Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm based on the talent management model that Ovitz pioneered.

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The Leading Predictor of Series A Valuation for SaaS Companies

Tomas Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint Ventures.  In this article, Tunguz discusses why negative churn is the highest correlated factor to post-money series A valuations for SaaS companies.

The Leading Predictor of Series A Valuation for SaaS Companies

The highest correlated factor to post-money valuations for Series A SaaS companies isn’t revenue or revenue growth, but negative churn. Revenue growth correlates to post-money with a 0.18 R^2. Revenue correlates at 0.3 R^2. Negative churn, or account expansion, correlates at 0.54 R^2.