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Neil Parak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
241 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

What we found is it can't really be like that for AirBs vacation rentals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

That's why we're doing the franchise model, which is much more localized for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Your question, Nathan, the first Airbnb host I connected, we started doing just residential cleaning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Uh, cause that's, that's what I knew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I found out about this kind of on Reddit just as an idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And I'm like, Hey, this guy's doing cleaning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I'll just do the same thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

And this is like a side hustle while I was working in BC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Um, so the first guy called me and said, Hey, do you guys do vacation rental cleaning?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

It's the most ridiculous thing if you think about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

From tech VC to cleaning company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

That's exactly what I did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I mainly did it because I wanted to eventually leave and travel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I wanted some sort of side hustle to do then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

It ended up becoming cleaning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I guess it could have been anything, but I'm very happy it was a local business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

But yeah, it is kind of ridiculous when you say it out loud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

How much was that first job?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

What did you get paid?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

I think like a hundred bucks.