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Sahil Arora

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
201 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I showed them the rough sketches of the application which I had built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I showed them all of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

After that, so I remember the third guy, he said that it's not going to work and even he

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

drop the call then the remaining two of them they said that we can try for a week so we'll see how it goes for a week if we are unable to get some productivity in a week then probably even we'll walk off so I remember that we drove we made the thing for a week with these guys who said that we're okay to do with it because they had no jobs at that point of time and they were 14 and 13 so

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So basically they wanted to do something with their skills, but they couldn't utilize it somewhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So they said, probably if we kind of join your venture, we might just get something out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I said, cool, let's get started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

And if you make profits, we are definitely splitting that up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So in a week, I remember we started building the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

I've got around 10,000 cabs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

Yes, I'll tell you that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So basically, as I told you, the early product I sold it off to a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I had capital with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I bootstrapped that capital initially for the hardware cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

Yes, I'll tell you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

So I spent around $100,000 on the initial stages of the business, wherein we got our presents in around 1,000 cabs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

After that, we raised an investment from a venture capitalist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

That was $500,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

And then we funded the remaining 10,000 cabs through that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

It was, it was from a VC.