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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

And mostly people are searching for things on Google, and then long-tail searches bring them to our library of content.

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

Uh, when did we announce that?

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

Like six months ago?

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

Uh, you know, we, we've grown past that quite a bit.

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

I mean, we're, we're growing at, uh, maybe 50% per year right now.

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

So, um, so yeah, I mean, revenue is going pretty nicely.

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

We're, we're pretty profitable and, um, yeah, I mean, the more we grow the subscriber base, the, the, you know, the more revenue we have to return to publishers and authors, we can get more and more content in the service.

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

And, um, we're just trying to continually get that, that kind of, uh, growth loop going.

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

Yeah, well, every 100,000 subs, we have a big celebration.

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

And I mean, the next one for us is a million subs.

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

I mean, that's really what we're aiming towards.

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

So that's a big one that we're looking forward to celebrating.

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

Uh, yeah, I mean, I don't want to comment on numbers too much.

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

We're blowing past 500,000.

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

So we're, we're, we're on our way to the next big one.

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

We're going to be announcing soon, hopefully.

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

Um, well, I mean, if we work with a, with a publisher, uh, the book kind of shows up automatically on our service.

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

So the, the main, uh, the main thing for us that we've had to do is just, uh, is, is work with publishers to get them model, uh, comfortable with this kind of model.

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

Oh, we, we definitely pay them.

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

I mean, uh, so we have a number of different types of deals in place these days.