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$20m Fund for Amazon Sellers Using Private AI to Uncover Gold Mines
- ▶ 2:15 Simon Gillett So really we're a micro private equity fund, and we built an API in partnership with our, with our cloud provider, uh, to allow Amazon sellers to do demand forecasting, to do pricing analytics. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Simon Gillett So you can do it with any of the big cloud providers that we just happened to have chosen AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:28 Simon Gillett So it's, so it's actually on, on the Amazon 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:31 Simon Gillett sellercentral.com and you need to already have had an account with, as, as a merchant with, with amazon.com to be able to, to sell there.
- ▶ 6:43 Simon Gillett Is, is a later conversation, but that ability to do financial planning and resource planning with the same forecast, the same forecasting technique that amazon.com uses does attract quite sophisticated merchants who want to forecast their…
- ▶ 8:32 Nathan Latka When did you first put a dollar, you know, your first dollar behind an Amazon business? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Nathan Latka Were you targeting like, you know, a specific kind of product on Amazon or was just, you looked at the metrics, you said, this is a winner.
- ▶ 13:34 Nathan Latka The reason I'm asking is because there are eight, there are Amazon sellers listening right now that might think you're a great fit, but if it's a million dollar fund, it's going to attract a different audience than if it's a hundred… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Nathan Latka Obviously, there's big companies like Thrasio and others playing in this Amazon roll-up space, but if you truly have unique proprietary algorithms on the reporting side, maybe you can find gems where they don't see anything.
How This 29 Year Old Bought a Micro-SaaS for $20k To Save Time
- ▶ 3:30 Label Hacked I started looking into different like inventory tracking options, uh, talking to a bunch of friends that do e-commerce mostly on Amazon, but also some Shopify.
Gainsight Paid Him $10k+ To Figure Out Sales in 2013, What He Recommends Now
- ▶ 6:08 Richard Harris So it was like their AWS service.
Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation
- ▶ 1:45 Nathan Latka Fortune 500 brands like Google, Amazon, AT&T, Walmart, and Intel power and automate the UX and CX research of all their digital properties through UserZoom's agile and scalable platform.
Camera Insurance as Beachhead to SaaS Play? 100 Customers Already.
- ▶ 18:38 Matt Sweetwood Well, I keep Amazon keeps all the profits, but, um, you know, it's been really good for me.
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.
- ▶ 2:46 unnamed speaker Um, cloud builds on AWS and GCP and, and saw that, um, uh, really what they were struggling with was picking the right tools, um, for the use case.
- ▶ 4:53 unnamed speaker About 70 companies using their product quite a bit to optimize their AWS infrastructure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 unnamed speaker You know, these cloud vendors are going to consolidate and it's going to be AWS TCP versus Azure.
Granulate Breaking Records in Cloud Computing Savings Space, $30m Revenue Next?
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
- ▶ 21:52 Nathan Latka I mean, if Apple, you know, there's a big war happening right now between Apple, Amazon, all these brands about the war for the home.
Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
- ▶ 9:11 Nathan Latka And we're going to get to this, but ultimately when the big guy came after Square, which was Amazon, you credit a lot of the success of you fighting off Square to doing nothing because you guys had so much of your innovation stack built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:56 Nathan Latka Amazon coming to the space and undercutting your 2.75% fee.
- ▶ 32:07 Jim McKelvey I think Amazon was on it at one point. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Nathan Latka Because basically what you're, what you pitched to Herbert in that meeting was essentially saying something like Amazon thought they could just undercut us like they do with everybody, but you realized that there was a list of things they…
- ▶ 45:48 Nathan Latka So diving into this, you fight off Amazon by literally doing nothing.
- ▶ 59:34 Nathan Latka Fought off Amazon during the same year they IPO, they cross a billion dollars in revenue at Square, and they continue to recognize their innovation stack is the key thing that gives them a real mode building their business. 2 times in the scene
How To Acquire A SaaS For $1.2m, Flip for $2.4m Quickly
- ▶ 3:49 Nathan Latka Like there's an engineer, a critical engineer that left and you can't log into the AWS console, for example.
Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?
- ▶ 15:50 Bruce Buchanan So we are net negative churn, if you will, on our e-commerce clients, but on our advertising or product sale clients, it's a bit more fickle, like, you know, whatever products being sold and whatever, you know, sort of like Google AdWords…
What a 440 Person Amazon Community Looks Like (and its $1m+ in Revenue)
- ▶ 7:01 Nathan Latka I mean, why haven't you guys launched and, you know, an, a tool for like, you know, tracking Amazon prices of your competitors, something related to your community members, you can upsell to them.
- ▶ 12:40 Nathan Latka What are some of the other largest sort of Amazon focused communities? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Eugene Kamen So when I started my e-commerce brand, I was kind of operating alone in this Amazon space. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:58 Eugene Kamen I mean, with, with Amazon, you don't really control the traffic.
- ▶ 20:00 Nathan Latka They protect that Amazon product with design patents and other
Can He Convert Twitter Followers to Software Subscribers?
Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback
- ▶ 3:11 Nathan Latka I haven't heard somebody doing what you're doing, which is essentially something mechanical Turk almost, but you're only posting data capture jobs.
He Exited for $600m, Started with 40%, Now Building YC and AngelList for Latin America
- ▶ 15:35 Brian Requarth It's going to be on Amazon. 4 times in the scene
MediaMash Raising $1.5m So You Can Own Your Audience
- ▶ 11:41 Donna Valario They're even being, uh, having competition by Amazon and all the direct to consumers.
eComVids Pivots to SaaS For DropShippers to Get Product Creatives
- ▶ 2:11 John Reyes We focus specifically on e-commerce video creatives for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, Amazon, you name it.
SaaS CEO Launches PPE Factory, $10m Sales of Surgical Masks, American Made
- ▶ 11:49 Lloyd Armbrust Um, it's, you really take for granted coming from software when you're like, oh, I, AWS instances.
- ▶ 16:18 Lloyd Armbrust I mean, it really, so what we learned early on, cause I've never done consumer before was that people just said, thanks Amazon.
How Pepperi Hit $11m Revenue Bootstrapped, Rollup Next?
- ▶ 13:47 Ofer Yourvexel Um, I think Amazon, yeah.
FullFunnel.io Using 4k FB Community, Book to Grow B2B SaaS Business
- ▶ 8:51 Andrei Zinkevich Um, so we sold, uh, over Gumroad, we sold so far, 500 copies, uh, on Amazon, we sold almost 3000 copies, and, uh, before launching this, we had a campaign on product hunt, but it was, you know, I can't, I can't treat it as a sales revenue,… 2 times in the scene
Party.Space Makes $200k From One Customer, Hopin Challenger Next?
- ▶ 7:06 Yurii Filipchuk Uh, so when you're in Amazon and you would like to throw a end of year party for your employees, you can budget that much.
Amilia Makes $8m/yr From Event Organizers on 3 Revenue Streams
- ▶ 2:11 Francois Galliette In my mind, it made no sense that I can, I could not find and buy a swim class at the corner of the street and can get everything shipped to my door from Amazon. 2 times in the scene
FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
- ▶ 7:49 Oren Zaslansky Or to an Amazon fulfillment center, but then they may turn around and ship a single pallet to seven 11. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Oren Zaslansky I think what we'll see is, is Amazon come in and build the largest parcel carrier in the world, sort of from the side door or top down, depending on how you want to think about the metaphor. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Nathan Latka Number, are you in acquisition talks right now with Amazon?
How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
- ▶ 1:30 Kate Chernis Amazon isn't profitable yet, number one.
Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- ▶ 20:46 Derek Steer Like you can just go get a hundred K and AWS or Google credits and you can, you can, you can run your business pretty much for free for a pretty long time.
BossInsights 2x YoY to 5 Customers Helping Lenders Capture Data
- ▶ 0:06 Keren Moynihan It's actually someone who scaled Amazon.
- ▶ 7:06 Keren Moynihan It's actually someone who scaled Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 Nathan Latka So, so just to be clear, the partner that you started working with, who is ex Amazon,
- ▶ 14:28 Keren Moynihan What actually has to happen is a little bit more of what Amazon did. 3 times in the scene
AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing
- ▶ 2:08 Ori Greenberg We're actually the only ones who provide market share insights into sales that occur on amazon.com as well as Walmart, eBay, Google Shopping, etc. 3 times in the scene
FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
- ▶ 2:48 Eric Adler So you can buy it on Amazon.
- ▶ 5:11 Eric Adler Um, so if you just look at this on Amazon or look at it on our website, you know, it looks like this hardware, this gadget.
- ▶ 11:17 Eric Adler Then we also have direct consumer sales on Amazon, and Amazon is becoming a large channel for us as well. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:11 Nathan Latka And, um, how do you, I mean, for people that are buying this directly through Amazon, what's their incentive?
- ▶ 20:08 Eric Adler They're putting money into Amazon. 2 times in the scene
G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation
- ▶ 16:02 Godard Abel TV on Amazon recently.
Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
- ▶ 27:27 Nathan Latka Why doesn't Amazon crush you? 4 times in the scene
GreySuit Hits $4m Revenue Helping 700 Furniture Brands Manage Meta-Data
- ▶ 6:02 Nathan Latka If the product catalogs, you're then pushing out that same metadata for the Amazon headline, but also the Walmart integration or the FedEx integration, et cetera.
SalesProcess Did $1m Last Month Helping Brands Drive Sales, 40% Net Profit
- ▶ 24:28 Darren Ong I think, uh, Amazon and Google shares.
Trustisto Hits $60k Revenue Helping Ecommerce Brands Increase Cart Conversion Rate
FeedSauce Helps Brands Get Top Notch Product Shots, Influencer Style
- ▶ 3:44 Nathan Latka You're creating the image and then, and then sticking in on these metadata feeds so it shows up good on Amazon, on Shopify, and wherever else they publish?
GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
- ▶ 4:17 Scott Wingo So we have a, um, you know, um, unlike Uber where it's a 10 99 marketplace, uh, our, we decided early on to take a page from Amazon's playbook.
- ▶ 5:20 Scott Wingo Uh, the ultimate convenience is Amazon prime, right?
- ▶ 18:58 Scott Wingo Um, and I come up with that metric because when the Amazon rolled out prime now, they, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Scott Wingo The answer is we can get to 85% of prime households by just being in 50 markets in the United States.
- ▶ 25:09 Nathan Latka I mean, if you end up building like, you know, Amazon once last mile deliver, they have a fleet of drivers, but if you end up building like last mile services, right. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Scott Wingo Uh, and then, you know, they, they ultimately licensed that software out and that became AWS as we know it today.
- ▶ 27:40 Scott Wingo I would say, uh, buy as much Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix stock as you can.
Reamaze Breaks $3m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands with HelpDesk Tool
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 11:56 Nathan Latka You're covering your AWS or your server spend, et cetera.
Flowster Hits $10k MRR After eCommerce Brand Hits $3.1m In Amazon Sales
- ▶ 2:40 Trent Dyrsmid So it's a business that is an Amazon reseller, nothing particularly unique about it other than the way that we went about it.
- ▶ 5:00 Trent Dyrsmid And in our case, one of the things that we started with was, well, how do we identify competitors on Amazon? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Trent Dyrsmid I was gonna say it happened because I wasn't, so as a result of the first year success we'd had with the reseller business, I was invited to speak at a conference with approximately 500 other Amazon resellers in the audience. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Nathan Latka I click on finding competitors on Amazon, and there's a sort of a split screen. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 Nathan Latka Those steps say things like number one, find prime sellers.
- ▶ 14:56 Trent Dyrsmid So instead of like the first market is the resellers, this, you know, small company that wants to partner up with brand owners who own all the products that are sold on Amazon, but there's a trend in the Amazon marketplace. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Trent Dyrsmid That they're going to start opening their own Amazon seller central accounts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:03 Trent Dyrsmid Many of whom are already on the Amazon sales channel in one way, shape or form. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:11 Nathan Latka We don't want to be serial and have a hundred million downloads of Joe Rogan, but if we can just reach the 5000 for, in your case, biggest sort of Amazon brands, that is a massive win for you to build a hundred million dollar business on…
- ▶ 25:25 Nathan Latka Guys, in 2019, he built his own e-commerce brand through 3.1 million sales, started documenting all of his process to help other Amazon sellers sort of do the same thing and said, you know what, I'm gonna build an app for this.
ClearView Is HootSuite for Lawyers, Hits $2.3m Revenue, Would Look at Exiting for $6m
- ▶ 18:15 Adrian Dayton When I was 20, I wish I knew, um, how much Amazon was going to grow.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 21:11 Dan Martell I was literally competing against at that point, probably 500 companies that offered hosting, right?
HumanProofDesigns Hit $2m Revenue Selling Starter Sites to New Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 3:50 Brian Brewer It's a revenue producing site that, um, has made, earned about 4000 dollars in revenue so far this year using affiliate marketing model, mostly from Amazon affiliate links.
Flippa Gave Me $1.1m Valuation Based off $600m in Deal History Over 10 Years
- ▶ 4:02 Blake Hutchison And so with platforms like Amazon and Google and, uh, Shopify and BigCommerce and Recurly and any other platform that enables a digital asset owner to scale, there is a fundamental paradigm shift in the opportunities for those businesses,…
- ▶ 16:41 Blake Hutchison They could type in Amazon and hit search. 3 times in the scene
OnFleet Flirting With $10m ARR Processing 3m Deliveries Per Month for 900 Customers
- ▶ 20:01 Khaled Naim Invest in Amazon.
MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data
- ▶ 4:56 Michael Lewis So a smart speaker is basically something just like the, um, the Amazon, you know, home, uh, assistant or, uh, I'm sorry, Google home, uh, or the, uh, the Amazon echo.
- ▶ 15:06 Nathan Latka What I'm trying to get at is, like, my first question is, you know, listen, Amazon doesn't have to make money on a speaker sale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:44 Nathan Latka I mean, that, that is why Facebook, Amazon, Apple, I mean, that is why they have so much power here. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Michael Lewis I'm our prime subscriber.
FlyPlugins Hits $500k/yr For Wordpress Addons
- ▶ 13:43 Ben Arellano Now I could, I could upload an MP four file to like, let's just say AWS, but it's unprotected. 2 times in the scene
NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy
- ▶ 9:37 Stanislav Dimitrov Then, I think also Amazon dark mode, eBay dark mode, Gmail dark mode, like, pretty much all of them, but they change depending on the searches and depending on if some of the big tech media outlets actually write an article about that. 4 times in the scene
Visably Helps You Manage Search Exposure, $700k Raised, Pre-Revenue, Launch Soon
- ▶ 2:46 Chris Dickey Someone like actually clicks on an Amazon link and Amazon's recommending your product.
- ▶ 5:40 Nathan Latka There's, there's three e-commerce, like Amazon thing is listed.
- ▶ 17:30 Nathan Latka PR, paid, uh, organic, you know, uh, you know, or review rating on Amazon.
ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
- ▶ 1:38 Nathan Latka Before that, he was the first technical hire at a commercial real estate startup and an engineer at Amazon, making it more fun for you to read books on your Kindle.
- ▶ 1:38 Nathan Latka Before that, he was the first technical hire at a commercial real estate startup and an engineer at Amazon, making it more fun for you to read books on your Kindle.
- ▶ 5:40 Justin Duke To AWS.