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Samir Patel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So if you're a marketplace right now, it is supremely expensive for you to go and get people to pay attention to what you're doing and to come to your site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

But once that happens, you need somebody to really get your customer acquisition costs covered.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

You need to drive them through a very, very systematic process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

to get them to a point where every time they think of taking a ride, they'll use curb.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Every time they think of booking a restaurant, they'll use your service if you're a consumer service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

If you want delivery, they'll use you, not somebody else, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So we wake up every day trying to solve that on both sides.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Because if you don't have both sides working, you can spin up buyers and sellers,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

But if you've got a lot of buyers in Austin, a lot of drivers in California, it doesn't make, it doesn't help.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So we can help you with those kinds of problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

It ranges, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

It's all an activity and a volume base, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

We've got customers who pay us, you know, $3,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

We've got customers who pay us $30,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

I mean, it's really hard, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Like it's, it's, I don't think there is one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

I think it's just basically depending on the size and the volume of your businesses, if you're in a small country somewhere in the world and you know, you've got a curtail user base that can never grow over 5 million or 10 million, it's going to be on the smaller end.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

If you're selling across world domination and you are 12 countries, it's going to, you know, you selling, you spending 20, $30,000 for CRM at that point in time is a drop in the bucket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Uh, no, they found me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Um, and I got intrigued pretty quickly, so I will not, you know, I won't, uh, they definitely came to me first, but it didn't take long for me to fall in love with, um, just a core of what this company has built.