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George Arison

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
482 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

We scrape a lot of data from a lot of different sources to get the right price on cars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

And we've built a pretty complex pricing algorithm that's very unique in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

But my point about revenue was that in 2014, oftentimes we'd mispriced cars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

And so when you would have a loss on a car,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

That loss obviously accounts against revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

So, you know, we probably also had a lot of negative revenue in addition to positive revenue because of some of the losses on cars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

Because, you know, in the beginning, we didn't have all the data that we needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

And so we'd go to more traditional places to price cars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

And those are super inaccurate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

So it makes good sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

Yes, we definitely beat a million bucks in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

I don't think I can tell you what our annual revenue right now is, but we are growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

We're growing very, very fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

I actually, you know, in the last quarter, we really focused on growing revenue and sustainability from the business model standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

rather than just volume growth, because we needed to get to a certain volume to be able to start running experiments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

But now that we have this kind of very strong volume, we think it's really important to really focus on unit economics and kind of make sure that the business itself is very profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

Well, so in 2015, we were growing roughly 20% month over month, sometimes faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

And, you know, first quarter of this year, likewise, we were growing by 20, 30% month over month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

Now we slowed down to roughly, you know, 10-ish.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 367: $94M Raised, Car Marketplace, 270 Employees with George Arison of Shift

percent month-on-month in order to make sure that we can balance increasing our revenue with growth.