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David Dobochnikov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
114 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

Okay, so the story is that our product didn't start as a SaaS product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

It started actually as a blog and content-related scholarship space itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

So that kind of got a bit of traction, and on top of that, the product started being built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

So that's why the story is a little bit confusing in that sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

But it's not like we built a SaaS product and then started looking for customers for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

A few thousand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

Not that big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

6 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

So what I mentioned before that we have additional revenue other than the SaaS side is different partnerships of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

other scholarships promoting them to our platform, other companies in the educational space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

We work with around 40 different partners at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

There are many different ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

It's a bit hard to know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

So, I mean, a simple example is Nielsen, for example, does market research to scholarships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

And we work with them to basically work with the students to reach out to students to Nielsen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

We do basically revenue share, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

We do it with Nielsen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

We do it with other organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

For example, ones that promote our side, we have the two-sided.