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Raf Howery

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
237 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

So it's really a very simple matrix.

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

It's pretty straightforward.

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

It's buy bands of addresses, buy product.

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

And then once you have that price, you add them all up and you apply the discounts.

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

I'm right now in the middle of something.

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

I cannot share too much about that, if that's okay with you.

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

But I would say the caveat is often it cycles between volumes, between summer and winter, and also between what the bank or, let's say, the fintech wants to do.

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

So I would say that that is, even though it's relatively consistent, it does fluctuate a little bit.

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

Yes, very clear right now.

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

We're seeing it actually very clearly in the pipeline.

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

And also there's a trend right now in the industry where I think a lot of the large institutions are focusing a lot more on retaining that customer post-transaction.

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

As you probably know, when you give somebody a mortgage, you're only going to interact with them when you send them the invoice.

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

And right now there's a whole sort of more focus on trying to stay close to that customer so that you capture the next transaction and you capture more share of wallet, more HELOCs, more car loans.

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

And that's not going to happen by dropping them after the transaction.

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

So this is where the value proposition is becoming more of the business case that most of the industry is looking at today.

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

No, we are mostly bootstrapped.

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

So we have only taken private money.

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

That's been the case, including some of mine.

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

And we lived within our means most of the time.

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

We try to be always near profitable, meaning that we try to stay profitable, but we reinvest.