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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223533 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

That then led to a big programmatic SEO motion, blew his domain rating up on Ahrefs to above 80, organic traffic over 200,000 clicks per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

And then he said, okay, this machine is working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Let me pour paid ads on the funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

About $500,000 a year spent on ads in 2022, of which 30% were LinkedIn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

The rest were Google ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Ultimately built that business to over 8,000, 9,000 paying customers and 12 million bucks of revenue bootstrapped

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

before selling in 2022 to a roll-up group called AppHub for about $82 million all cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

He's now building Partner.io.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

If you want to check it out, you can find him online at Partner.io.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Calum, thanks for taking us to the top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Thanks, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

can i ask how many sales total you have so far yeah close to a hundred thousand that's a ton when did you launch at the beginning of this year uh we only really started scaling uh very recently right can i just do that math i mean can i do a hundred thousand sales i'm 60 a piece you guys have done six million bucks in total revenue life to date i think this month uh yes we're in the six figures everything else you see is custom built hey folks my guest today is ricardo he's the co-founder of dream stories harnessing generative ai to bring immersive storytelling and image creation to life

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Before launching the company in 2023, he was VP of growth at a body scan startup called Neko Health.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Prior to that, he founded a snack company and was a founding member of Spotify's US team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Ricardo, you ready to take us to the top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

All right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

People hear Spotify and early and they assume you got rich off options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

Is that accurate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

What year was that?