I agree. I live in a long sales cycle world for software subscriptions so the typical monthly SaaS metrics don't tend to tell me much or work.

I think the same metrics are important but you might calculate them on different time horizons.

I still look at net churn by customer and dollar, ARR, CAC, LTV, ACS, and more.

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