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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

And that algorithm is based on interest.

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

And it's machine learning.

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

I know that's a buzzword, but we've been doing that for like five years.

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

And we basically train it every day.

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

And if we go up against any sort of legacy technology when it comes to agency or ad tech,

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

We pretty much outperform them every time when it comes to mobile because we just focus on mobile.

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

So we don't really have a need for cookies, and it's all based on interest rather than clicks or other sort of simple metrics.

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

So if you're a customer, you typically pay 50% of that spend to make use of the technology.

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

If you go, then of course it's a volume game.

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

The more you pay, the less we charge basically.

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

No, it's going to be a bottom because we, I mean, obviously we're going to have a transaction fee.

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

We make use of AWS so we can scale it as fast as we want, but they're going to charge us quite a bit as well.

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

So it will never go down to zero.

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

I mean, if you look at that model, the pure tech model, we actually have, I mean, since we have full stack, we both service demand and supply.

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

We have a cut on the demand side, which we just talked about, and then there will be a supply cut as well in order to service the supply.

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

On top of that, we- Give me a real example of that.

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

Yeah, so it could be Hearst Group.

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

Okay, or People Magazine.

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

Yeah, I mean, the top publishers of the world, basically.

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

And it might be the traditional publishers.