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Cargamos Does Last Mile Delivery in Mexico, Breaks $12m Revenue, Raising $30m Now
- ▶ 12:04 Ivan Ariza Look, across Latin America, uh, if you think about, uh, big locations, for example, uh, fulfillment centers, if you look at Amazon, for example, you're going to find that, uh, a single location could cost even more than a hundred billion,…
MedStack Grows 300% TTM, Raises $3.2m Seed at $15m Valuation
- ▶ 11:41 Simon Woodside So, um, we want to have the ability to support like AWS and Azure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Simon Woodside We, we provide a lot of guidance to our customers on those questionnaires, so we can, we can pretty much tell them how, like, we can, so we provide guarantees, and this is what really differentiates us from, like, an Amazon or an Azure is,…
100 Solar Panel Firms Pay $83k/mo To Manage $1.5b in Projects on Enact
- ▶ 2:01 Deep Chakraborty It's a cloud software hosted on Amazon used by both solar developers and installers, as well as the end customer.
100% YoY Growth to $1.5m ARR Today Helping Brands Unlock Consumer Data With Rewards
- ▶ 9:44 Anik Clary Um, not everyone necessarily wants to redeem for a 10 dollar Amazon or Starbucks card right away.
Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
- ▶ 11:15 Harish Kumar Everything, everything, including my AWS or other type of infrastructure cost, uh, GPT, counting together, 7500 is the total run rate.
- ▶ 13:47 Nathan Latka Your headcount, your payroll, your AWS is 7500 per month.
Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue
- ▶ 5:18 Bob Miles The cost of our compute is around one fifth, again, per teraflop, uh, per hour of an AWS spot instance.
- ▶ 5:46 Nathan Latka Let's say I want to spend that to get a 40 dollar Amazon gift card. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Nathan Latka You just told me that you would bill where I'm getting like a 40 dollar Amazon gift card, right?
- ▶ 13:42 Nathan Latka But wouldn't also like Amazon be your customer or the people that you're putting the awards cards, like how many, how many individual SKUs do you have listed in your marketplace that people can buy?
Revenue Recognition SaaS Hits $500k ARR, Raised $4m at $20m Valuation with 30 Customers
- ▶ 15:46 Ali Dalarup So the customers that are using Snowflake or maybe, uh, Amazon Redshift can also get the data down.
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023
- ▶ 13:41 Ryan Urban Even your ad you see on Amazon, their sponsored results when you do a search, they're, they're, they're pretty valuable. 2 times in the scene
SecurityScorecard Breaks $71m ARR, 1700 Customers, $200m in Bank to Fuel Product Expansion
- ▶ 18:30 Alex Yampolskiy We launched the marketplace with a lot of incredible partners like CSC domain register, tenable vulnerability scanner, uh, Redshift, HackerOne, Microsoft Teams.
Testbox Lets You Try Software Without Sales Calls, Landed 1st Customer, $2.7m Raised at $12m Post Money Cap
- ▶ 17:32 Sam Senior So, um, I think the team is loving AWS and writing, um, with chalice apps on AWS. 2 times in the scene
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post
- ▶ 11:39 Oren Zaslansky Um, I, I think it's fair though, to put us more in an Amazon type
Stitched Insights Raising $3m with $700k in ARR for Customer Intelligence Tool
- ▶ 1:21 Dimitri Pavlov Things like Amazon is a channel or an internal support request channel, or like Twitter is another channel.
Will Veem's 300,000 SMB Customers Process Over $5b in 2021? 3 Products Driving Growth.
- ▶ 27:28 Marwan Forzley I love what Jeff Bezos did with Amazon.
- ▶ 27:36 Marwan Forzley AWS.
TakeTask is Clickup for Deskless Workers Grows 80% to $2m ARR
- ▶ 2:09 Nathan Latka And so name one of these, name a company in one of these jobs, like would an Amazon fulfillment worker in their warehouse in Iowa be an example?
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon
- ▶ 1:38 Enrique Vaz So it's going to connect to your public cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- ▶ 3:36 Enrique Vaz Focusing, like I said, on the main compliance and frameworks and benchmarks from, for AWS Azure and Google Cloud.
- ▶ 8:56 Enrique Vaz And created a Team Cloud Inspect, which is a FinOps product for AWS Cloud.
Agiloft Founder Feels Good About $50m Run Rate In Next 12-24 Months
- ▶ 7:41 Colin Earl Um, we use AWS for hosting abroad. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Colin Earl And backed by a significant organization like Amazon or Microsoft, you're almost always better using that than, than developing your own.
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers
- ▶ 18:23 Nick Mehta Buy Amazon stock.
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate
- ▶ 6:05 John O'Shull Amazon's got huge
Estated Grows 100%, Breaks $1.7m ARR for Property Data Platform
- ▶ 19:44 Josh Fraser And you know, when you're talking like Walmarts and Amazons and Googles, one percent improvement anywhere is huge.
CPG User Research SaaS Suzy Hits $40m ARR, Flirts with $500m Valuation, IPO Next?
- ▶ 15:22 Matt Britton Currency like a Spotify gift card or an Amazon gift card or things like that.
400 Firms pay $1k/mo For This Investor Database, Growing 100% YoY Bootstrapped
- ▶ 11:12 Guy Koston You know, the Googles, the Amazons, everything, all the tech companies, the traditional value businesses, you know, energy, I mean, airlines, all of those types, cyclical type businesses.
20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool
- ▶ 2:21 Jacob Lenski So you probably heard of Amazon selling and drop shipping and things like that.
- ▶ 7:36 Jacob Lenski I believe that, you know, one of the strongest sources for, uh, bringing people in, uh, especially within the e-commerce market and especially in drop shipping and Amazon selling will be through affiliate marketing, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Jacob Lenski I've used Jungle Scout for Amazon selling. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Nathan Latka Guys, he sold 15,000 dollars worth of lanyards online and his team is now launching ecompilot.net and help other people find profitable things to sell on Amazon using other sources like Alipay.
EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets
- ▶ 19:39 Jonathan Fishbeck I like, I like Amazon.
Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool
- ▶ 10:55 Nathan Latka I'm just gonna put my tax return in the book, and so my tax return is actually on page six for my first SaaS company in the book, and it's the most highlighted, uh, it's the most highlighted page in Kindle for the book, so there you go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 Aurelien Amaker So I'm going to name the, the second one after that would be, uh, uh, I mean, the great book that I've just read, it's working backwards by two senior, uh, former senior executive at Amazon, you know, it was very interesting.
He'd Sell Keyword Research SaaS $750k ARR For $1.5m, $250k in Profits
- ▶ 13:05 Kevin Peterson You know, it's not, you know, we're not beholden to Google and Facebook and Amazon to, to, to pay us.
Why SaaS Founders Use Them as SDR's, First Sales Hire
- ▶ 8:05 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, uh, I can't treat it as a sales… 2 times in the scene
Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?
- ▶ 16:35 Godard Abel Like, I bought a Samsung TV on Amazon recently.
ProjectCor Hits $1m ARR, Raises at $40m Valuation for Profit Tracking Tool for Agency's
- ▶ 19:56 Santi Biblioni They said Amazon for Latin America.
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
- ▶ 4:54 Nathan Latka Cause if you believe that whoever tests the fastest today wins and you look at Amazon, that we're probably running a billion tests right now, Facebook, same thing, then you want to understand testing frameworks.
$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?