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Alex Bean

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
824 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Like, can you come in and build this thing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And, you know, at the time we were, we thought we were going to like take over the X games and take over skateboarding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So you kind of thought big, but we did some fun stuff, learned a lot about manufacturing and branding and,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

He got healthy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So that's when I gave it back to him and then got into tech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So learned a lot, a lot of fun, but definitely different than FinTech for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So tell the Divi, if you had Divi when you were running that business, like what sort of credit lines would you have been pulling?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

What sort of expense management would you have been doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Like sort of explain the current product as how you would have used it back then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Yeah, but it's funny because you might say like, well, how'd you go from selling scooter parts to doing Divvy?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And to me, I'm actually, it's super natural because, you know, when I'm running Lucky, which was the scooter company, we had 10 riders all over the world traveling for various tournaments, you know, building content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

We would do trade shows.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And so I would send seven guys to Vegas on a trade show conference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And we're a small company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

We didn't have a ton of cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So spending the budget of $15,000 for the conference was like impossible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Like you can't go over, but everyone was using their own car.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

We were getting expense reports, you know, a month and a half late.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So we were going over without knowing we were going over and Divi would have solved that entirely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

We, you know, we could have said, Hey, here's your budget.