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Yuri Ferber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
458 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

Last year, we started our expansion to Europe and the US markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

No, because we stopped that raising process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

What happened is that we changed our expansion model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

We created what we call a distribution franchise model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

So basically, we now have like five franchisees around the world, and they are...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

allowing us to expand globally without a lot of money from our side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

So at that time, we were raising money to grow the sales and marketing team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

And now that growth is coming from the channels, from the franchisees that we are attracting around the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

So our revenue is like $9 million if we keep the same currency exchange rate that we used at that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

Because I don't know if you are following Brazilian exchange rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

From that time, it's like almost 50% devaluation in the currency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

It's good, but again, because now we have customers in three different currencies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

We have customers in Brazilian reais, of course, most part of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

Out of the 250, 2 and 20 are in Brazil.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

So most part is still in Brazil.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

yet in Brazil, but we have customers in Europe and the US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

So we have like 90% of our clients paying in reais and 10% paying euros or dollars, US dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

We still have the 20 people.