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Kevin Tan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

it makes sense for them to buy it on a use case by use case basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So, you know, PM or the like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So that part of our business is not really eroding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

We're moving to a DAS model or a DAS or a SAS model with a lot of the consumers of data through some of the media businesses because they're more equipped to deal with data on a bigger level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So they have the confidence to be able to buy and make a monthly commitment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So I was one of the early guys in a California-based ad tech company called Atify.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And I basically built out and ran the international company after we sold the company off to Cox in 2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And basically did our earn out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

My international team, we saw a lot of things happening with

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

the growth of audience targeting kind of in the digital advertising world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And we saw an opportunity to build out an audience-based business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So we left and we set up IOTA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And so simultaneously we launched across four markets from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So, you know, we built out the tech and kind of the legal headquarters was out of Singapore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

We had offices in Sydney and Berlin and London from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

So you put in your own money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Yes, we put in our own money, eventually found some private angels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And after a few years, we took some seed money out of Europe, which was our strongest market at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

And what's your team size to date?