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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?

We then wear all the costs, which is about 43 cents in a dollar.

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

So 50 cents goes a partner.

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

They see exactly what's happening.

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

We're very transparent.

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

We spend about 43 cents on technology and hosting and sales and commission and management of the platform and data costs and all sorts of weird, wonderful things.

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

And we keep about 7 cents on the dollar on the, on the net advertising side.

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

So it's typically how the advertising business works.

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

Uh, SAS for us is relatively small.

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

The fastest growing part of that SAS for us will be probably, you know, around five, six, $7 million.

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

I think this year, um, the fastest growing part of our businesses product, what we call distributed commerce, we're actually selling like parking or

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

insurance or you know whatever name a product that gets bought when you're buying another product um and on that product we're taking it's a marketplace cut as well it's a straight rev share effectively it's like a credit card merchant fee is effectively the way that looks from a pno perspective so if you look at like a paypal or mastercard you'd

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

You don't understand how that P&L works.

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

We sell nothing, and that's really important, actually, because we want to be completely unbiased as a middleman.

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

We connect consumers and brands and providers in a way that makes the product more effective.

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

So if you sell insurance or whatever through Rock and a customer is buying an airline ticket, you'll sell 60% more insurance because we get the right product, the right price in front of that consumer when they're buying.

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

We can manage the consumer relevancy and the contextual relevancy in real time in a transaction flow to optimize against

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

Lots of different variables, but essentially your take rate on that product improves by about 50, 60%.

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

So you pay us 3%, but you sell 50 or 60% more product.

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

Yeah.

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

And getting the creative right, the UX right.