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David Dobochnikov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
114 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

Some companies promote us and some companies we promote as well.

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

So Nielsen is an example that we promote.

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

But FastWeb, for example, is somebody who promotes us.

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

They have featured scholarships and things like that that we post our scholarships to.

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

Today, we're almost 50 people.

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

Around 20.

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

I mean, first, we have two products.

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

So far, we've talked only about the student side.

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

We also have a scholarship app, which is the CLM for Brands and Organizations for Office Scholarships.

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

And our product actually is very tech-intensive.

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

I, myself, before Scholarship Hour, I was a senior engineer at Google.

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

So I come from engineering.

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

And the whole process of matching and finding the scholarships and leveraging, you know, they will leverage also machine learning and AI to find the ones that you have the highest chance of winning.

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

And there's many different ways to apply to different scholarships to...

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

to leverage all this huge amount of data that we already have in order to basically, instead of the student applying to hundreds of different scholarships, we want him to apply to three scholarships a week, but he has the highest chance of actually earning.

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

Got it.

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

So 20 engineers.

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

Yeah, I need a lot of data and a lot of engineering for that.

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

We have marketing.

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

In sales, we don't have any.