CFO Playbook: Take Control of Your SaaS Growth.

What we’ll cover today:

💼 Take Control of Your SaaS Growth
🔑 The Key to The SaaS Model.
🤝 I Sold My 50% of Qura to My Partner
🔗 The Event Roundup.

Take Control of Your SaaS Growth

If you're stuck in endless meetings and data overload, it's time for a change.

The CFO Playbook will help you focus on what really matters for SaaS success.

Here’s how:

• Focus on fewer, smarter metrics:

  • Track 5-6 key KPIs that truly drive the business.

  • For SaaS B2B companies, usage metrics are critical.

• Build a powerful "Financial Hypothesis":

  • Align your board and team around key metrics, such as:

    • Customer acquisition

    • Profitability

  • Use metrics to guide decisions, not just track progress.

• Own the boardroom:

  • Present numbers simply using a red/yellow/green system.

  • Focus on future strategy, not just past performance.

By the end of this playbook, you’ll be leading growth—not just managing spreadsheets.

Here's the whole playbook

1. The Key to The SaaS Model.

This article is from OnlyCFO, one of the most followed names on ‘X’ in the Saas Industry.

He posted: ”The concept of ARR is dying:

1. Consumption pricing can be very volatile

2. Revenue from AI are experiments (high churn)

3. Revenue from traditional SaaS will see much higher churn in the future

Customer retention is key to the SaaS model (and ARR), and it’s tanking for many.”

Here’s the Article

2. I Sold My 50% of Qura to My Partner

This tweet is by Amr. Founder of Qura.ai. 

Qura.ai is a social media copilot. This tweet is from the founder, telling why he sold half of his company to his partner. 

“For the past 6 months, I’ve been working on Qura, an AI platform that helps creators write content and replies on X.

We made great progress and grew it more than I could have imagined. But after much thinking, I decided to move on and start a new chapter.”

Here’s the Tweet

1. Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal.

The software deal is set to last 10 years, with the option of extension for up to two years, while the SI deal is scheduled for an initial period of five years, with the option of extension for up to 24 months more. 

When the government launched the procurement, it said the total deal could be worth up to £215.6 million.

2. SaaS-based HRM Market is expected to grow from 2024 to 2030.

The software-as-a-service (SaaS)- Based Human Resource Management (HRM) Market is projected to reach US$105.84 billion at the end of the forecast period and grow at a CAGR of 18.6%.

3. Driver launches an AI-powered platform for creating technical documentation.

Driver, a startup coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8 million seed funding round led by GV, uses AI to reduce this entire process to only a few hours while also giving businesses the opportunity to generate user-specific documentation.