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George Arison

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
482 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

Given the what's happening, you know, when people don't want to go to stores, we actually are,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

really excited about leaning into a test drive to deliver to you, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

Because kind of avoiding seeing most people when you do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

We know what we can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

We don't actually list them beforehand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

We've thought about doing that, but we've not done that yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

But we do know what we can sell it for because we have a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

Fairly complex pricing algorithm that we use to kind of understand where the market is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

And then we try to give sellers an offer that's usually better than what they would get trade in or if they sold the car or close to what they would get if they sold the car themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

And then we sell a car, you know, at 98, 99% of market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

So roughly where the market kind of generally is and then make margins on the difference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

Plus, we make money on financing, warranty, and other attached products that you can get when you buy a car.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

So it's very similar to what a dealership would do, except sell it as a little bit better, and the buyer gets a way better experience because the test drive is brought to them rather than them having to go to a store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

Yeah, probably something like $11,500 is kind of what we try to target, meaning like a margin of $1,500.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

And then some portion of that goes to reconditioning the car, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

So that's not our full profit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

But that's very rough because it all depends on the kind of car you're dealing with, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

And we have a segment in our business that we call value auto.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

So these are cars that are below $12,000 in price and over 80,000 miles on them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

They're actually very, very popular.