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Tarik Khribech

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And whomever they choose to hire, they simply can just award the jobs to that particular individual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

So currently what we do is we take a commission out of that service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

So once the job is completed, we process the payment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

We make sure that the contractor receives its payment within two business days or 48 hours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

We take a 20 percent commission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

But however, that's in the long term.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

It's going to change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And we want to drop down to our commission services to simply a 10 percent commission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

and introduce a subscription bidding fee, which is a nominal $1 for contractors to bid on a project rather than what the competitors normally charge anywhere from $5 to $30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Who's your biggest competitor?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Angie's List, Home Advisors, TaskRabbit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Well, 2017, mid of 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

No, this was all being bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And now we're in the process of talking to investors to bring in some seed fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

We're looking at somewhere between half a million and 750K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Well, currently what we've done so far is we were able to generate some revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

Based on the metrics that we have is we have an average transaction per customer roughly around $196.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

We want to make sure that the investment that we get right now will get the investors at least a 5x return upon the exit minimum.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

And that's what we feel like, you know, that $500,000 to $750,000 is a sweet spot for us to focus our economic growth.