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Carlo Cisco

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
426 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So I saw that space too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

And you're looking at these annual fees kind of ranging from 100 to up to 2500 for Centurion plus initiation fees and stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

for benefits that have really been basically points you may or may not be able to use towards travel and then a bunch of crap that you're never ever going to use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So I saw this opportunity with the merchants and thought, okay, I think we can get them to buy in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So it's an annual membership fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Um, so members pay $250 a year, uh, to have access to, um, the card, all the benefits, the platform, uh, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Uh, well hotel tonight is kind of an exception.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Um, so yeah,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

all of our rates are below the lowest publicly available rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Um, hotel tonight is probably the only exception because they have access, uh, to like last minute inventory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So their prices change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Um, if you're booking more than a week out, it is definitely going to be lower than hotel tonight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

Um, if you're booking two nights out or something like that in hotel tonight, or even the night of then hotels tonight might be less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So total revenue, so it was actually just under 700,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So we have one B2B deal that's at like a volume discount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So that's where part of those memberships come from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

And then the price has increased over time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So it's a publicly traded REIT, essentially, that has memberships for the tenants in their buildings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Your $250 Ticket to Luxury Did $700,000 in 2015, EP 292: Carlo Cisco

So that was to sort of solve the marketplace problem.