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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224696 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

Do you remember your first million dollar revenue year?

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

There's people listening going, well, I want to be like Roth and go from zero to a million dollars in my 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

You know, that bank didn't just call you because out of randomness, you did things to create your luck.

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

What did you do those first three years?

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

So for our focus on distribution, because there's a lot of founders that they have world-class products and they never take off because no one knows about them.

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

The focus on distribution.

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

This is a distribution around was you hustling, giving away for free, and then it was product-led growth, individual agents using it.

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

And if an individual agent, if five people at Keller Williams start using it, then eventually the C2 at Keller Williams says, I got to buy a company license.

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

That's correct.

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

That's how it started.

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

Very cool.

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

Very cool.

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

So that was going forward to 2018 when you broke a million of revenue.

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

You know, it sounds like you're flirting with around 4 million today.

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

How much time do you need?

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

Is it at 2026, 2027?

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

When do you think you can break 5 million of ARR?

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

At this point, people are buying less houses because mortgage rates are still in the 6% to sort of 8% range.