Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Bruce Buchanan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

SaaS revenue is just gross in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

Product revenue, we book at our margin, which is typically about 3%, which goes into that gross 170 number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

But advertising, we book the whole number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

And then our margin on that, if you look at our contribution numbers, less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

That's the difference between the 170 and 90.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

It's basically the way you treat the advertising revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

It depends on what we're doing, but our gross contribution margin on advertising is about 50%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

That's the amount that we pass on to our e-commerce partners, effectively the delta between those two numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

So if you look at gross profit, so if we're selling product, they keep obviously...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

around 97% of all of the revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

And so we don't book the gross product sales, but when we're talking about advertising, we book the gross revenue and we clear the transaction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

So Disney's trying to,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

acquire customers on our platform, they might spend X million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

We clear that with, you know, a thousand different e-commerce partners or whatever that out of players.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

And then, you know, the core part of our business is we made, unlike a typical advertising value ecosystem where, and this is slightly different from product and marketing, which is the other two sides of our business, but on the advertising side,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

We are a closed-world garden, similar to like a Google.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

And so we clear everything and we deal directly with the advertiser, directly with the e-commerce company, primarily because we're dealing with sensitive data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

And in the last few years, that's only become even more important that we keep that very secure for our clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

Yeah, they're all JVs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

I mean, the way the economics work on the advertising is their contracts like JVs where we pass 50% of the transparent relationship.