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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223769 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

Is that you're going to get back to 100?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

But Alex, for you, what's typical though, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

So if you're taking 10% of monthly receivables, do you typically get paid back on the receivables you purchased within five months or do you model for 12 months or 15?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

And Alex, in fact, during a key component you have to model is obviously the discount rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

The 100K example you just gave us where you wire 90K up front would represent a 10% discount of future receivables.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

Is that your target typically?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

And the quickest way, at least on a year-long facility, now yours, again, go from eight to 16 months, depending on the percent of monthly receivables, but a 28% discount rate paid back over 12 months represents about a 52% effective interest rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

How do you get consumers or how do you get these businesses comfortable with that kind of interest rate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

Well, no, but Alex, sorry, just to take a step back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

It's not a loan, but it's a true sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

They're selling you future receivables, which is why you don't have to deal with recharacterization lists and usury and lending laws, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

That's the way you get around that as a factoring business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

You can still go calculate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

Yeah, but the reason factoring is a thing is because it's a true sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

You don't have to worry about usury laws in certain states and lending licenses and things of that nature.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

So my audience will understand this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

They're, they're sort of savvy find.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

They'll understand this completely, but I just want to underscore paying back that 10 K cost of capital in three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

If the company grows really fast and receivables grows really fast, it's very different than paying back 10 K over someone that delays their payments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?

And it takes three years.