1:05:15

This Scottish SaaS Company Makes $1M/Year Per Employee (#461)

From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2023 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

The video presents a "business breakdown duel" comparing Petex, a Scottish oil-and-gas SaaS company generating ~$100M revenue with ~$58M profit and ~$1M revenue per employee, against Hims, a D2C telemedicine company that scaled to ~$800M revenue in seven years but with thin margins and high capital intensity.

Key insights

  • Petex (Petroleum Exports) is a highly technical petroleum-engineering software company founded in 1990 in Aberdeen, Scotland; it has only 420 customers but charges ~$300K/year per license.
  • Petex hit 78 million pounds (~$100M USD) revenue, 58 million pounds profit (~$58M USD), and paid 50 million pounds (~$60M USD) in dividends to the owner — a ~52% net profit margin.
  • Petex’s average all-in employee cost is 101,000 pounds/year; with 86 employees, revenue per employee is 911,000 pounds (~9x ROI per hire).

Want the full analysis - every claim cited to the second it was said?

This page only shows a teaser. Sign up to chat with the complete, cited breakdown of "This Scottish SaaS Company Makes $1M/Year Per Employee (#461)".