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Nathan Latka

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Let's try and use a real example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

If there's a big travel agent that's listing four hotels in San Francisco that are available tonight, I guess why not just go use Expedia and find the cheapest price for the hotel in San Francisco?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Why can't they just use the hotel name and the address of the hotel as a unique identifier?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Why do they need to pay for VervoTech to do that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

and i usually stay at the triton hotel in san francisco i can't remember walking down any major city street and going there's a hilton that's a one star and then right next door there's another hilton name the exact same that's a five star i've never seen that is this a common problem this is a very you know very common problem so you know when you look at let's say you know a hillton or trident it may be a five star property or it's a chain property so there may not be exact same name

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I'm not sure I believe this is a real problem, but your numbers can prove me wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

So I guess help me understand what do customers pay on average per month to use your technology today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

That's a big range though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Would you say the average customer is paying you something like $30,000 a year today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Okay, so $16,000 per year, so something like $1,200 per month, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

What's the backstory here?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

What year did you launch the company in?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

And is that what you, was that the starting pricing back in 2018 as well?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

So your first customer said, listen, you're early.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I don't want to take a risk on you unless I can lock in this cheap pricing for seven years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

And you said, okay, fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I need the money sign here.