Dane Cooper
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard 16 Feb
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Top Founders · 1676 Why 850 Farmers Pay Him $127k/mo To Manage Livestock Feeding · 25 Feb 2020
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And really from the efforts out there, working with a lot of different
software companies is livestock was a missed opportunity that nobody was really focusing on.
40% of the agricultural GDP in the world is through livestock.
So it's a huge, still niche market that was just lacking focus and needed digitization.
So it was a market we targeted and focused on as we launched in 2015.
So we have about 850 customers that individually subscribe to $150 a month.
And then we have several enterprise agreements.
So we have several channel partners that we look through our go-to-market strategy that we have partnerships with from an enterprise level that we're doing some software integration and some hosting and branding type revenue model type stuff within the business too.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, our MRR from our direct customer base is right around that $130.
Okay.
We were right at, let's see here, it was right at $7,000 a month.
Yeah, for sure.
So we, you know, initially we looked at it, uh, we bootstrapped it, uh, for the initial angel type round.
Um, so we had a small, you know, myself and a co-founder started the business with bootstrap funds, uh, power company we were with sold for 930, $30 million.
Uh, we had employee stock payout, uh, that really we were able to invest.
There's a climate corporation.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, so it was acquired by Monsanto in 2015.
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