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Kurt Averall

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349 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

That said, the growth trajectory to date hasn't been impacted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

We're continuing to grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And what I would characterize as kind of the top, you know, 1% of startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And the company operates, you know, we're pretty tight-lipped about like absolute numbers, but I can tell you we operate pretty close to a break-even.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Like we've not burned hardly any cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Most of the cash that we put on the balance sheet is to buy inventory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And so, and so, yeah, I think like you could see a three, four, five X growth over the next 12 months, you know, based on, on what we know of the market over the last 12.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So it's a combination of the equity dollars that we've raised from the venture side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

And then we also layer in a debt, some debt on top of that, that gives us kind of the purchasing power.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

You know, the one thing I'd mentioned that you, that you brought up was the interest rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So typically when you think of like a one eighth ownership in a home, you're not thinking like, Oh, you know, that's something that can be financed, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

That in fact, historically that way, that's not a product that would have been a financeable, but yeah,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Um, that's actually not the case with these shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Like these shares, um, can be financed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Um, we have a partnership with a bank that finances these shares at a low interest rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

In fact, in the Newport beach homes, um, the interest rate is 4%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So it's actually less expensive than a, than a traditional mortgage in, in kind of the current environment, which is, uh, which is amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

So we closed a seed and an A, which we kind of announced together at a $17.4 million financing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation

The A was led by Peter Thiel.