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Hassan Faid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
96 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

and being able to charge them once they've seen the value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

So a lot of the conversations that we have are not us trying to pitch our solution versus other existing solutions in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

It's really us selling the idea of bringing software into the farm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

Uh, so we've spent about, uh, $250,000 so far to build the software and it includes, uh, four different products, basically that, uh, one is for the worker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

One is for the supervisor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

Uh, one is for the management itself and one is for our internal, uh, tools and, and, and, and management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

No, I'm not rich.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

We raised from investors, essentially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

That was in February and March of this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

We raised close to $2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

Yeah, we've already, so previously I had built a few companies in the UAE, in Dubai, and we've scaled these to become quite healthy businesses that are standing on their own two feet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

I think that what enabled us to raise this amount

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

at an early stage is A, the validation for the value that this product can bring from leading industry players in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

So the main thing is number of acres engaged and the numbers of workers that we onboard as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

So currently in the pilot, we have over 1,200 acres that are engaged on a daily basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

And we have close to 5,000 workers that are also engaged on a daily basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

So the main thing is really to make sure that our software and our products are able to deliver the right kind of value to these farms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

And it's something that we're planning on doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Farms in Egypt To Pay This SaaS $1/mo/active Acre to Manage Seasonal Potatoe Crop Harvest

I mean, the first customers that are going to start paying is next month in December.