GoSun

“You've built the harder part, which is the physical brick and mortar, like the atoms. They've sort of built the bits, right? It's easy for you to add bits. It's probably harder for them to add the hardware, so you're probably more valuable than them”

“I mean, we went to like two trade shows a month there for a while, and we always focused on, hey, please give us your email. You'd have an iPad or something to sign up, drop your business card in, whatever. We got, you know, we must have got a 100,000 emails t…”

“Oh, nine. And we've done most of them on crowdfunding, Indiegogo, and Kickstarter. And they've all been successful. The average is somewhere around 400,000 dollars in, in pre-sales.”

“We were watching the tiny house trend just continue to ratchet up, but nobody was really addressing it from an efficiency standpoint. The houses are cute, but they're not very green. They use a ton of propane or electricity to stay warm and cool depending on t…”

“We're well over 10 and we're, you know, we're definitely on our way to our first 10 units in production. For 21.”

“And then we've done two equity crowd fund raises as well. And those have brought in about one and a half million in capital.”

“Yeah, it was a 213 K over seven weeks.”

“We're not going to have a great margin on the tiny home, you know, 10 or 15% on something that's a hundred grand, that's 10 grand great. But it's really about, you know, getting people into using our products and relating to our products in these different way…”

“I didn't pay myself until 2017. So it was about four years after the first launch.”

“There's a part of our business that's about social entrepreneurship, and we're trying to bring our technology to three billion people in the world that still cook with wood and charcoal every day.”

“You know, the other one I want to say is Figma. Figma has totally changed our business in the last six months.”

“We have about we have about 50,000 customers and our emails are, you know, a couple, about a quarter million. Our sort of social following is about a quarter million.”

“We recently launched a tiny house. Which is literally, you know, an entire home on wheels, 22 foot long, and it generated a huge amount of interest, and we're getting into manufacturing tiny houses now.”

“Actually it might be more like 70% because something like this, like we have such a volume on something like this tiny amount of plastic, amazing little, these are like four bucks and we charge like 15. So that's a healthy gross margin.”

“We do have a Facebook community. It's called the Facebook community kitchen Facebook.com backslash groups backslash go sun. And there's like 8000 users in there that post on a regular basis how they're using our technology.”

“We shipped like, we shipped 40,000 of these.”

“We're up to about 15 now. We've had to hire another engineer. We've got a sourcing professional now.”

“I think it's going to be over a hundred K.”

“It'll be over five million.”

“Well like off the top of my head, it's going to be somewhere around 80 bucks. And so we get, we try to push for margins, gross margins that are over 50%, somewhere around 60 on something like this.”

“We spent around 300 K in 2020, and that generated about one million in revenue. So we get about a three, a little over three return on ad spend.”