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Matthieu Jost

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86 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

So...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

It's pretty simple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

We are like a marketplace and we are taking a fee on every transaction going through the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

They are homeowners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

And so what is interesting is that it's not only gay men.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

We are really open to everyone in the LGBTQA community, meaning that we have also women on the platform, also straight women on the platforms that are using Mr. B&B because it's safe and more cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

We are taking a fee on both sides.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

We are taking 4% on the host side and 12% on the traveler side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

The average booking is three nights, so it's around $300.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

US?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

We bootstrapped when we launched for six months, and then we started to raise capital from Business Angel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

Today we have around 80,000 hosts over 135 countries that listed their place on the website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

This is a very interesting question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

And we saw that most of our users are traveling alone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

And it's really a question about gay men have some difficulty to connect together when they are traveling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

And also, when you are alone, it's always more expensive to travel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

So we really answered that question about being able to offer something at a very good price and offer the capacity

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

to connect with the LGBT local scene.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost

That's why that 70% of our users are traveling alone and are booking mostly shared apartments on the website.