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Nathan Latka

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225942 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

We never did a price valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Roth, if somebody's listening to this podcast and comes to you today and offers you $10 million all cash to buy 100% of the business, do you sell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

That was quick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Well, you gave me the exact number, so it's easy to give a quick answer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

What's the number?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

I'm not going to talk about that right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Fair enough, Raj.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Well, hey, this has been a lot of fun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

If people want to learn more about you and the business online, where can they follow you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

So if you send us any contact, be sure that I will know about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Guys, there you have it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

MyCocoon.com was launched in 2014 after Raph quit a consulting gig where he was making over a million dollars per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

He bet on himself and broke a million dollars of revenue in his first three and a half, four years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

He went on to raise about $7 million in addition to putting a million dollars himself into the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

That was all before 2022, mainly on convertible notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

They continued to scale by empowering real estate agents early on to use tools they built for homeowners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for Banks and Fintechs

Eventually, that product-led growth led to word of mouth, where they sold directly B2B, directly to the brokerages, and now to banks, and now to fintechs.