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Anindya Datta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
258 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

how much what how much media buy yeah ah so so you know 2000 uh 2014 was our first sort of revenue year okay and we did about a million dollars of revenue that's pretty good and that's only media buying okay in 2015 sorry just to be clear one million of media buys went through you or your cut of the revenue from the media buy was one million

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

of the revenue from the media buy was one million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

The amount of cost that we paid out was, I should have looked these numbers up, some fraction of that one million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Maybe 60% of the one million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

2015 was also all media buys, and we were building our data platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

In 2015, we did about $4 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Yes, we call this our audience platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

But remember, in 2014 and 2015, we were generating no data revenues at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

We were simply buying media in order to make my investors happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

I just didn't want to be spending money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So I said, can I make some revenue out of the media we are buying?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So we went and convinced some people saying that, look, we are building this data platform underneath.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

We can add a lot of value to this media we are buying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So people bought some media from us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

2016, in June, we stopped media buying almost completely, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Now, in 2016, our revenue... But we bought a lot of media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Our media buying was growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

And in 2016, we did something very interesting, Nathan, which...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

I don't know how much I can elaborate on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

We played a key role in the U.S.