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Stephen Stuut

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
315 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

What you do when you sell to somebody in Vietnam versus selling to somebody in London, very different economic situations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

It is helpful to understand, though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

One thing that I think a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

finding that one key usage metric that you know provides ultimate value that you can tie pricing to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

It sounds like you are crystal clear on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

You know your number that you're optimizing for is a number of identity verifications, and you know that as that number increases, that has a direct correlation to your revenue increasing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Very good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Steven, let's wrap up here with the famous five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

You ready?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

These are, these are easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

I promise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Number one, what's your favorite business book?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

My favorite business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Interestingly, it's a book from McKinsey when I worked there, and it describes how you go about analyzing a marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

What's it called?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

I can't think of the name of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Well, it's an internal book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

There's a term in it they have called NISI, which is Mutually Exclusive Conceptually Exhausted, which means don't make a structure for analyzing a market that you don't have it thought through carefully.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

yeah because then you use the wrong structure to analyze it but it's based off the wrong assumptions correct interesting is there a book you can name that people can access publicly