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Zvi Schreiber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
642 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

There's a big spread.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

Tell me about your perfect customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

Yeah, I mean, it starts from as little as even less than $1,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

And it goes up for a big global freight forwarder with tens of thousands of employees, then it's well into the tens of thousands of dollars a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

Yeah, we could have two users or a thousand users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

So that's quite a variation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

Maybe worth just explaining, you mentioned the interaction between the SaaS and the marketplace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

Yeah, share more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

There's a particularly important reason for this, which is, let's talk about why most marketplace startups fail.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

The reason why most marketplace startups fail is because of the chicken and egg problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

So you launch a marketplace, you've got the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

But the buyers come and they don't see any sellers, so they go away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

And the sellers come, they don't see any buyers, they go away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

So you've got this chicken and egg problem where it's very hard to get to a critical mass, which makes both sides happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

And once you do, you've got a really valuable growing business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

So we solved that with a SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

We spent the first four years selling SaaS to freight forwarders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

And now we already have 1,000 sellers worldwide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

We have a relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space

We're all ready to sell on our marketplace.