📶 Market map: Growing revenue-per-employee

“In the next decade, a team of 10 or less will build a billion dollar business.”

Somebody told me that a few years ago, and I thought they were insane. Headcount and scale were correlated, right? (right!?)

Wrong.

In today’s world, efficiency is the metric that everybody is tracking, and we’re seeing more and more businesses popping up that are helping other businesses grow via reduction.

• Compressing entire departments into functions

• Automating repetitive tasks freeing up more time for core team members

• Giving individual contributors massive amount of leverage

We think revenue-per-employee is the north star metric for VC-backed companies over the coming years, and we’re actively betting on companies powering this movement.

Here is our full breakdown on the different markets in this category and the opportunity zones in each.

What’s inside

• Sales enablement tools to create more sales time for sales reps

• How some companies are outsourcing 95+% of their customer support

• Legal bill reduction software

• AI-first bookkeeping as an alternative to Quickbooks

• More ways to give individual contributors more leverage