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Trip Adler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
131 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

I think that adds up to 50, but I got my math wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So it's about 50 to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

And at this point, we're profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So we're just living off profits, which is a good spot to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We're not really intending to raise any more money for the time being.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So for us, it's two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

It's headcount and it's content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So we don't actually pay for users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We started the service as just a free service for publishing and sharing content, and it today reaches over 100 million monthly users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

So we basically just market our subscription service to those 100 million users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We don't have to actually pay for marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

We pay for a little bit, but just a small amount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Um, so, uh, so our two costs are really just hiring good people, hiring good, uh, um, engineers and designers and, um, all types of, uh, people that build, built the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

And then also on the, uh, on the content side, we, we go to, we do deals with, uh, book publishers, with magazine publishers, the newspapers, and we make all that content available through the subscription model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

All, all there in Palo Alto.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

Especially in San Francisco now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

I'm from Palo Alto, but live in San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

You can see the view behind me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

I was about to say, yeah.