Mayya: White-labeled SaaS like Scenes will beat centralized platforms long-term
Varun Mayya · Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes · Jul 12, 2022 · at 29:56
Varun Mayya, founder of Scenes, compares the creator platform landscape to the historical shift from Yahoo GeoCities to custom domains.
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“So my personal belief is in the longterm, just like geo cities and domains domains ended up, GoDaddy ended up winning. I feel like we will end up winning because we are the white labeled version or the SAS version of, let's say platforms that exist today, a Maven or you know, unacademy in a sense.”
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