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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?

But in a world that we're headed to now with, you know, economy heading into a recession, my guess is that cohort is going to become more and more in demand, right?

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

Because people are going to have a harder time obtaining financing for more expensive cars.

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

And so suddenly cars that are cheaper and older and safer, or are still safe, are going to be more and more in demand.

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

Yes, if you have good credit and if you have a job.

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

But unfortunately, a lot of people are going to be left without work.

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

And my guess is that people are also going to try to avoid transportation and avoid ride sharing.

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

So my hunch is that demand for used cars over the next couple of quarters is going to jump because of everything that's going on.

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

So shift's been around since 2014.

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

We sold our first car in June of 2014.

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

Okay.

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

Um, so we will be about six years in sales since, you know, in a quarter or so.

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

Um, I don't actually remember our numbers every year, but overall we've grown roughly 30 to 50% every year we've been around.

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

Um, and if you could take our taker in terms of volume and we finished last year with, um, 11,500 cars.

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

No, no.

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

In just in 2019, we've serviced about 60,000 customers in the life of the company on both the sell side and the buy side.

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

We were hoping to do, you know, something like 16 to 17,000 cars this year.

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

Now we'll see what happens, right?

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

Like some things are going to be positive and some things are going to be really negative.

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

Really hard to tell, like literally I was in a meeting just now planning on like what happens if the state tells us, hey, business can't exist at all for a month, like shut everything down.