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Bob Baga

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Yeah, most of it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And so one of the things that we're doing now is it's very much about how quickly can we grow these communities and scale them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

So San Diego is a really cool new market for us, and it's growing at a nice tick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And then

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

The idea is then to take that blueprint and success and then scale it across multiple cities across the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Uh, it'll, it'll be exceed a hundred million dollars this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

But you're not sure what that growth rate is going to be at yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Fourth quarter is our biggest quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

So my background is actually when I was 22 years old, I dropped out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

I was going to go to law school and didn't go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

I'm East Indian, so I'm supposed to be an accountant, lawyer, a doctor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Very happy about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

And I started this company in Toronto called Barter Business Exchange, and we grew it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

to about 6,000 businesses across Canada.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

In 99, we merged with a smaller company out of Seattle, and we created ubarter.com, took it public during the whole first wave of the dot-com boom, and had a successful exit, and we were acquired.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

uh, basically, you know, took some time off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Uh, kind of in between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

So it was, it was, it was pretty good and it looked really good on paper, but we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
903 $700m Goes Through BizX As SMB's Barter and Trade Services and Goods

Okay.