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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, you know, you can buy stuff.

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

on that tablet you can you know make purchases on that tablet you can you know use that tablet to do transactions transactions as in you know for mobile wallets you can do transactions so we are also tied up with this company which which provides magnetic card strips you know so card strips so basically you can swipe your debit or your credit card in that tablet and you make purchases from that that's something which we're planning on doing right now so hill what do you pay to put your hardware in each taxi do you pay the taxi driver the taxi company at all

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

Yeah, so we do have a rev share model with the cab aggregator on an annual basis.

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 we share around 15% of our revenues with the aggregator directly.

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

Yeah, one five on an annual basis.

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

Yeah, yeah.

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 close to around $550,000.

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

Uh-huh.

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, yeah.

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, you know, an average ride time here is somewhere around 10 to 15 minutes, keeping the traffic and everything in mind.

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 the average ride time which we see right now in India is somewhere between the lowest I'm talking about is 9 to 10 minutes.

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's the lowest time which we get in India for any ride, you know, for any trip.

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's more than enough for us.

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 that's the average we see.

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 we haven't seen any ride time which is below that, you know.

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, basically.

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 what I do is, you know, every revenue that I get, I find more tablets with 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 basically what I do is all the revenue that comes in, I buy more hardware for it so that I get my presence in more and more 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

That's how we keep growing the business.

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, you know, when I started off with this, I had around 500 cabs with me and then we started making revenues from those 500 cabs and we installed, you know, 1500 cabs.