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Will Schroter

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994 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Now, a lot of those people will then graduate to raise more capital and that's wonderful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

But I still have yet to see this kind of mass market solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Crowdfunding was supposed to be it, you know, to start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

There's just some parts of the mechanics of it that just don't quite work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

We do run a counter on the amount of capital that's been committed on the platform, which is a little over $500 billion, but I couldn't give you the number as to how many companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

$500 million if I said billion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

We don't see the funding closed because we don't do transactions on our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

We don't have that license.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

So some number of it could fall through, but usually the capital commitments hold pretty true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Founder does it in more traditional means.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

In other words, the folks that are committing on Fundable aren't committing $1,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

These are people committing usually $25,000 to $50,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

They'll take that through their own version of a safe note or whatever they're going to do and then do a wire transfer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

There's eight transfers or whatever would be in a deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

It's not big enough that you need a very transactional

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I don't, and you know, the reason I don't know a lot of these numbers is I don't look at them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

The funny thing is I'm our CFO, so I look at our dollar numbers very closely, but I do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I do like a hundred other things, but the other thing I do a lot of is product development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And every now and then at the beginning of a product, we'll run numbers to see like, you know, average number of clarity calls, the number of people getting funded, et cetera.