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Jason Greenspan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
177 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Yeah, so the way to work from a physical product perspective, depending on your channel's distribution that you're selling into, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So just using, you know, standard product economics, most retailers today are looking for, you know, roughly between a, I would say a 35 to 50 points of gross margin so they can afford, you know, the rent, the store, the staff, all that kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

And just you look at normal business gross margins, you know, you got to make some coin in there too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So you got to make sure that everybody on the supply chain side that they're making some money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So I'm not going to get into specifics around it, just, you know, some proprietary information, but you know, our margins are, I think our margins are pretty good and we're trying to just grow the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Obviously the $10 skew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So if you think about, you know, you sell a chocolate bar for two bucks, um, you know, you got to sell a lot of chocolate bars to make some money and our product line follows the same kind of model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Yeah, I think they should be aiming for roughly, you know, between 40% and 50% gross margin, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Because they're building a branded product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Yeah, net bottom line, if you look at most consumer product goods companies, they're netting around 5%, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So everybody's a bit different, but if you look at, you know, other companies like Cadbury's or electronics companies, you know, looking about a 5% net income to revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

Yeah, we're happy with our results today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

We're funding growth, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So our challenge is we're keeping investing our funds in the company to grow the brand and drive product development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

So we're doing the right things to fund the business at this stage, but a mature business should be driving around 5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

uh no we're not actually no our business has really grown through the wholesale business versus the e-commerce business which is you know it's kind of funny you think about today how you would launch a business a product business you know you kind of have three big buckets that we kind of say so one is you know have domain expertise to launch it online either through a crowdfunding or you know have a more a more less costly channel strategy and three um you know have relationships that you can that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

can help you launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

We kind of did it backwards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Phone Cleaner Will Do $5m-$10m This Year, Launched in 2012 at CES, EP 274: Jason Greenspan

None of us came from the cleaning business or consumer electronics accessory business.