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Net revenue retention is the metric that compounds
Explain your answer to "Why is net revenue retention often called the ADM's most important growth metric?" Add one concrete detail from the lesson.
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Net revenue retention is the metric that compounds. Expansion stacks on a base you already own, and an adopted account grows faster and more cheaply than a new logo, so NRR above 100% means the book grows without new acquisition. It is also the clearest proof that adoption converted into commercial value.
"Your payments team finished the service migration in four days, and most of their engineers are in Cursor every day now. Your checkout team works in the same codebase and runs the same kind of migration. Could we run the same rollout with them next quarter, with the payments team's lead walking them through how they set it up?"
Asked how you find expansion, describe a system: a high-activation team becomes internal proof, you keep a live map of customer needs against the roadmap and you time each play to a fresh win. Close by naming NRR as the compounding metric: "expansion is land-and-expand inside the account and NRR above 100% is the scoreboard."