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Ben Dobyns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Give me half a second.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We've done so many campaigns since then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So that was 1,117 backers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

On the Kickstarter, we tend to average $97 per backer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We very intentionally worked on building that sustaining fan base, which was our core business mission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Each time we turn around and as they've given us more money to work with, we've been able to deliver better product to essentially kind of start from this

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

very tiny position and growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And every time we release it, because the fans are empowered to share it, the fan base is a little bit larger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We've had more discovery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Kickstarter's brought more fans in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

YouTube has brought more fans in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And so it's just this regular growth curve up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

This year alone, we've done three Kickstarters this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We've raised over $600,000 on there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We've raised more money on

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

monthly patreon campaign on kickstarter what were the other two you have journey quest what were the other two kickstarters uh this year we did attacking the darkness uh where we raised uh around 25 grand that was kind of and we always do little experimental projects as well to see what the next big thing will be and then we raised 174 grand for a project uh a new gamers film

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

probably closer to 575.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So for journey quest three, by then we'd really figured our process out and we knew that it was going to be a big campaign.