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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

I thought you said it wasn't debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

I thought you said it wasn't debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Sorry, I want to bang this out because we're about out of time here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Just to repeat this back to you, a housing complex in Finland wants to install a heat ground project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

They use your marketplace to find the provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Let's say it's construction company A that's going to build that ground heat project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

You say, we love this project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

We're going to put up a million dollars of equity on day one, 100% of equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

You're going to say, hey, housing project, over seven years, you're going to pay us $142,000 per year because that's a million divided by seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So that's how you get the payback period, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Mm-hmm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So you now have cash flow and paper, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

You have an asset you're sitting on of $142,000 per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

You'll then take that and sell 500K of the million dollar project and go raise debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

And you'll pay that debt interest from the cash flows from the housing complex that you're supporting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

What do you think your cost of capital would be on the 500K debt you sell off?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So I assume you come from the space and you have some ideas of what benchmarks are, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

I mean, help me understand how you got into this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

I mean, what got you into this space?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Did you come from this world or...?