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Patrik Fagerlund

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
107 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

Yeah, so Widespace is a mobile advertising company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

So we started out in 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

Basically, we thought it was a fantastic company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

media channel and help companies to get into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

So we built our own technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

It turned out initially that nobody wanted to buy technology at that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

So we started to sell media fueled by our technology instead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

And we did that for many years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

And for the last couple of years... What do you mean by that, Patrick?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

Yeah, so basically selling media on, I don't know if you know what CPM is, but basically for charging for impressions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

Yeah, so roughly in the area of $10.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

But then if you have more advanced stuff, it's going to be above that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

It could be below that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

So this was 2009.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

We started with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

First couple of years, we tried to sell the technology, but in the media industry at that time, nobody wanted really to be seen in the mobile and nobody wanted to buy technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

At that time, we were in the area of, I think it was $2 million roughly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

No, that was the spend, and then our cut was roughly, it was basically an ad network, so at that time it was 40%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

40%?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised

2009, we were in the area of, we were few.

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