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1543 They'll Help You Manufacture Your Product for 1/4th the Cost as Other Brokers, $100k in MRR, 20 Customers
- ▶ 12:52 Rich Mokuolu It's really not about being the quote unquote Uber of manufacturing.
1520 BlueSnap Wants to Help Merchants Compete with Amazon
- ▶ 1:23 Ralph Dangelmaier Well, a simple example would be is everyone's really used to, and I'm sure you are, Amazon Prime, Uber, things like Starbucks apps.
- ▶ 3:38 Ralph Dangelmaier I mean, five or six years ago, this concept of one click checkout, Starbucks apps, Amazon prime, Uber hadn't really developed, um, into the forefront of all of the different merchants.
1517 How $165M ARR DiscoverOrg Sales Operation Works
- ▶ 20:23 Henry Schuck Shall we at Uber?
1508 With $1.2m in MRR, They're Making Truck Fleets More Efficient
- ▶ 4:23 Dhruvil Sanghvi Just like how Uber's job is to, is to make sure all drivers are busy. 2 times in the scene
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale
1483 How to Bootstrap to $1M in ARR
- ▶ 14:21 Thomas van der Kleij So what they do is they have like an Uber or like Dropbox style affiliate program where they basically just use this infrastructure.
1432 $100M/Day In AirBnB Bookings, He Makes $375k/mo Selling The Data
- ▶ 8:45 Nathan Latka Based off your data, when you select smart pricing on the backside of Airbnb, is that actually like Uber surge pricing, the perfect price elasticity, or are they leaving margin on the table?
1406 How Continuous Improvement Platform 15Five Hit $10m ARR using Land and Expand
- ▶ 8:37 Nathan Latka Of maybe it's just even one seven dollar account at, you know, Uber, right.
1400 How he Plans to Reach Profitability in CRM space by EOY
- ▶ 13:01 Nathan Latka Let's say you get a single signup user and you see their, the email that signed up is at uber.com. 2 times in the scene
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR
- ▶ 3:26 Samir Patel So everybody from, if you're a classified, you're, you're ride sharing like an Uber, uh, or an Airbnb or a DoorDash or Yelp or an OpenTable. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 Samir Patel Um, every country on the planet right now is racing to build out their Zillow, their Airbnb, their Uber, their DoorDash.
- ▶ 14:12 Samir Patel If you're trying to like keep Uber out of your country or Airbnb out of your country, you don't have nine months to make any decision.
1379 Live Video for Consumer Brands like Pottery Barn Passes $3m in ARR
- ▶ 7:29 Fritz Brumder You know, it might sound cliche, but sort of the Uber of live video.
1340 She Helps Raytheon with Procurement, Passes $1m in ARR with eye on $5m
- ▶ 13:55 Nicole Verkindt And so I thought, you know, why couldn't you, it might not be one hour, but in the B to B space, why couldn't you add a widget that reaches into Uber or some of these other platforms and,
1272 How This Pricing Page Drives Big Expansion Revenue with $260k/mo Verblio CEO
- ▶ 2:45 Steve Pockross So the revenue is a lot similar, more similar to a, to an Uber based model or that are paying their services and they're taking percent for themselves.
1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield
- ▶ 3:33 Brendan Carroll And in the meantime, we're basically building out a pilot network of third party that we also have a different customer success team for where we can basically match up almost like an Uber for imagery.
- ▶ 17:02 Brendan Carroll Um, I definitely followed Travis Kalanick through kind of the, uh, some of the stuff that he went through with Uber on the way out.
1262 200 Physicians Have Invested $6m Into This Company at $30m Valuation
- ▶ 17:01 Lawrence Girard Like, it's not really about patents with things like Facebook or Uber.
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment
- ▶ 7:14 Shruti Gandhi It's like the same thing as why invest in Uber at the early stages versus at the- Got it.
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?
- ▶ 17:16 Nathan Latka And if you see it at uber.com sign up, you're going to put one of your inside sales reps on there because you know that you could expand it to 3000 seats pretty quick.
1219 Will Prosperworks and it's 10,000 Paying Customers Win CRM Wars?
1160 Convoy, The Uber for Trucking, Charges Avg $4/mile on 100 mile trip, Takes Less Than 20% Per Unit Shipped
- ▶ 0:02 Nathan Latka Think of it as essentially Uber, but for trucking, uh, they're really, you know, doing a very interesting model here in terms of, again, making it more efficient, quicker, making sure truckers know where their next truck's going to be.
- ▶ 5:30 Nathan Latka You know, I use Uber because it's cheaper than taxi.
- ▶ 10:53 Nathan Latka Is it just, again, you know, Uber has huge acquisition costs in terms of getting drivers signed up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Nathan Latka And then your revenue model, is it the same as Uber?
- ▶ 16:57 Nathan Latka Are you in acquisition talks right now with Amazon or Uber?
- ▶ 19:10 Nathan Latka Uber, but for trucking, uh, they're really, you know, doing a very interesting model here in terms of, again, making it more efficient, quicker, making sure truckers know where their next truck's going to be.
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m
- ▶ 1:35 Nathan Latka Before this company, he worked at McKinsey & Company and then Menlo Ventures, where he sourced investments in startups such as Betterment, Periscope, Ansible, and worked with portfolio companies like Uber, Dropcam, and Roku.
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
- ▶ 18:33 David Skok Customers would like to be able to walk in and buy a packet of holes, and if we could give them that, if anybody, and never this, never has this become more obvious than, than, you know, uh, Uber coming along and disrupting rental car…
- ▶ 22:02 David Skok They were all used to Uber, Facebook, Instagram, etc. 2 times in the scene
1101 Bloomreach CEO: We've turned down acquisition offers in $400m range
- ▶ 1:50 Raj De Datta And the start of the company was really asking the question, why couldn't every experience on the web feel the way it does at Netflix or at Amazon or at Uber or some of the sort of much more modern tech companies out there?
1059 $100m In Audio Ad Spend Goes Through Our Platform
- ▶ 7:20 Mike Doherty I love that idea, but, um, fake the chicken, you know, if you got to get drivers on your Uber platform, just get the driver somehow.
1047 Rokt CEO: Why We Acquired CalReply for $15m on $1-2m in ARR
- ▶ 13:51 Bruce Buchanan You know, your Expedia's of the world, your Ubers of the world, Apple, um, those sorts of brands, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, um, uh, Groupon, big e-commerce brands tend to be our mainstay clients.
1033 Couple Cashes Out 401k in 2010, Now Doing $15m/Year
- ▶ 11:09 Nathan Latka I mean, let's look at an obvious example, Uber and Lyft.
1020 Urban Outfitters Inventory Management Tool Breaks $6m in ARR
- ▶ 19:27 John Andrews Uh, it's gotta be Uber.
1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
- ▶ 2:54 Frank Bien You know, 50 person and under tech companies, and then that grew, you know, grew to companies like Uber and Facebook and things like that, but, but we really serve anyone who has a need to access a lot of data.
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model
- ▶ 1:15 Nathan Latka That's obviously Travis from Uber.
978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping
- ▶ 9:57 Sam Saltis Uh, uh, Chicago, and I felt the tech community was a bit lack, lacks, um, New York was my second choice, and I went to Dallas, and my Uber driver had open carry guns, so I figured that wasn't, uh, for my daughter,
955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library
- ▶ 15:59 Michael Karnjanaprakorn And I think, you know, on one end of the spectrum, it's like Uber where they're, you know, they're going really aggressive because they feel so confident in their curves.
933 Why Wordpress CEO Raised $300m, Replaced Himself, and New Gutenberg
- ▶ 30:42 Matt Mullenweg Like that recent Bradstone one on Uber and Airbnb.
926 How Teen Launched $250k Record Label, Then Kidney Failure, Now $1.5m Agency
- ▶ 8:48 Ani Sanyal Um, I know they've done, uh, Casper, um, Uber, a couple other, you know, kind of early stage companies at that point.
916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name
- ▶ 3:06 Fred Stevens-Smith Um, so a way, a good metaphor is kind of Uber.
889 1% of Humanity Uses This Bootstrapped Tool, $100m+ Revenue
- ▶ 20:26 David Erickson It would have to be Uber. 3 times in the scene
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
- ▶ 2:49 Rob Bernshteyn An Airbus, a Rolls Royce, Nike, uh, to small mid-market companies, uh, that are, that are high growth, uh, Uber, Lyft, uh, as, as examples.
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play
- ▶ 24:15 Nathan Latka So Uber's using Foursquare because they're not Google.
852: FinTech: Businesses Process $10b+ In Supplier Payments Through NvoicePay
- ▶ 17:56 Nathan Latka Do you think there were internal conversations at Uber to bring Meg on, and if so, why do you think the other guy got it?
846: SaaS: $50m Raised, $12m+ ARR To Incentivize Reviews and Influencers
- ▶ 17:19 Mark Organ Well, uh, looking forward to see what, uh, Dara does at Uber.
844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
- ▶ 2:05 Nathan Latka Next, he moved to California to join Travis, obviously Uber, in building a peer-to-peer file transfer technology called Red Swoosh, which was acquired by Akamai in
- ▶ 18:21 David Barrett Um, a lot of other, uh, our top partners are there, some of the, uh, finance teams from, like, some of our, like, Uber is there, things like this.
836: Crypto: $94m Raised to Be Enterprise Blockchain for Global Payments
- ▶ 19:42 Nathan Latka Yeah, they got on my radar a while ago because I was thinking about different businesses where you can basically combine atoms plus, you know, like bits, because that's, that's what makes Uber work.
822: SaaS: 25 Years Old and $250k+ in MRR, Here's Trick to Starting With No Developers
807: He Exited His Company Than Invests $1m Into Energy Company For Operations Roll
- ▶ 8:16 Nathan Latka I, cause I use Uber and ride sharing, but yes, people have a car.
800: Crypto: He's Advisor Behind Worlds Top ICO's
- ▶ 19:14 Nathan Latka I mean, when I look at a model like Uber, where everybody hates surge pricing, but Uber can do it because they, they control the drivers and the riders. 6 times in the scene
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap
798: Mobile Ad Tech Passes $100m in Revenues
- ▶ 6:41 Harry Kargman Um, and then most of the retailers, and we've been very lucky to even work with like the Red Bulls of the world and, um, some of the more, more interesting sort of newer brands like the Ubers.
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
- ▶ 5:05 Jeff Glueck Like Uber, and Apple Maps, and Snapchat, and, and Twitter, and Pinterest, and Samsung phones, and I could go on and on, and so it's very much a powerful location intelligence powerhouse now, and yet we're valued more like an enterprise…
- ▶ 15:44 Nathan Latka It's better to kind of go back into the background and sell the pickaxes, sell the jeans, sell the shovels to the people mining for gold, the Ubers, the ride sharing, the hedge funds, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:18 Nathan Latka Before we wrap up, people listening are going, Uber, why is Uber using Foursquare instead of, like, Facebook check-in data or Google Maps, right? 4 times in the scene
771: $320M King of Mobile App Installs
- ▶ 9:32 Nathan Latka So a ride sharing company, we won't name names like Uber or Lyft because we don't want to disclose that information, but they'll, those kinds of companies will pay between 12 and 20 dollars cost per first ride.
768: In Mature Crypto Market, Who Gets Rich?
- ▶ 3:04 Martin Koppelman We assume that every platform that exists today, Uber, Airbnb, eBay, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:15 Martin Koppelman Or, I mean, uh, ideally a platform like Uber and all those platforms would also be public goods because, uh, Uber, I mean, once it's, it's built the, the marginal costs or the operation, uh, operating costs, that's not what, what, what… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:39 Martin Koppelman Still, the difference is, um, that if we have Uber today, then they have complete control over the platform, so they can change the rules, um, 2 times in the scene
758: The Ex-Stock Exchange Brain Behind Ethereum Blockchain
- ▶ 2:47 Anthony Di Iorio I mean, Uber is a rent-seeking model, Airbnb rent-seeking model.
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections
- ▶ 1:55 Nathan Latka So when I hear about an idea like purple Wi-Fi, I think about the horrible experiences when I'm traveling internationally, and God forbid the Wi-Fi log on at the airport is in a different language, but I'm like, crap, how do I get from my…
740: He's Helped 20,000 Land a Job, $4m Raised, $200k MRR
- ▶ 6:56 Cho Nguyen And, uh, you kind of think of it like a Tinder slash Uber for jobs in that, you know, there's pictures, there's video, there's chatting.
736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months
- ▶ 7:35 Sunil Thomas Uh, and irrespective of like, you know, how small they start out with, you know, even an Uber started off with an app store launch, right? 3 times in the scene
734: Ex Finance Dad of 3 Wants to Own Your Home
- ▶ 17:11 Ty Schlegelmilch I mean, look, I think Uber is fantastic.
732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns
- ▶ 3:45 Nathan Latka I'm thinking Uber, Lyft, on-demand food delivery programs, things like that.
728: With $24m Raised, Why is He Buildling FinTech On Back of Advisors?
- ▶ 29:55 Aaron Klein It's somewhere between, like, Twitter and maybe Evernote, um, you know, and then, and then, I don't know, maybe Uber.
715: This CEO Doesn't Care That VC Has Him By Throat
- ▶ 14:52 Ryan Seavey You know, they have Uber, Airbnb, some really big, well-known companies today that the consumption keeps going up and up, but, you know, Uber might have a bad month. 3 times in the scene
702: With $5k Left in Her Bank TheMuse Was Launched, 50m Visit Annually and 600 Companies Pay
- ▶ 15:14 Catherine Minshew We did it with a little known Silicon Valley startup called Uber that had about 50 employees at the time, and, ah, we decided to see if we could get them some hires from our platform. 2 times in the scene
696: The Debate: Are Patents "Entrepreneurial" Or Unfair?
- ▶ 5:41 Demetrius Giannoccaro So then you have to make sure, regardless whether you're a Snapchat or let's say that you're Uber, you need to file patents because in the end of the day, as long as you're small, nobody will care if you do whatever they do.
682: Why Tech Companies Are Opening Salt Lake City Offices With CloudCherry CEO Vinod Muthukrishnan
- ▶ 2:26 Vinod Muthukrishnan You need to be inside of the app like Uber does, right?
671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners
- ▶ 19:14 Steve McLaughlin Favorite online tool, uh, Uber. 2 times in the scene
657: Is OnFleet New King of Delivery Economy with 300 Customers Paying $500/mo?
- ▶ 8:43 Khaled Naim So, you know, think about sort of that Uber like end user experience when you get a real time, uh, tracking of the driver, you get notified when the driver's arriving.
655: Expensify 450k Customers Paying $9/mo for Expense Reports that Don't Suck with CEO David Barrett
- ▶ 4:27 Nathan Latka Like if you look at that, like this is pre Uber Travis, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 David Barrett Um, and, uh, that raises everything from like Uber, Yahoo, um, uh, Atlassian, a bunch of public companies, um, like Evernotes, most of Silicon Valley, most of the, the,
- ▶ 23:10 Nathan Latka Got his initial platform to kind of launch this idea from his work at Red Swoosh with Travis, now the CEO of Uber.
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis
- ▶ 22:52 Sean Ellis And especially for, for bigger companies that want to replicate what Facebook has done and what Uber has done.
642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey
- ▶ 4:31 Nathan Latka The Uber ride for 15 bucks, the airport, and when I land another 15, so it's 30 versus 80. 3 times in the scene
EP 614: Pendo Raises $31M Helping 200 Customers With In App Messaging To Drive Usage with CEO Todd Olson
- ▶ 20:04 Nathan Latka He's doing this via a major partnership with Uber.
EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
- ▶ 1:48 Sahil Arora After that, under the same umbrella, we started another product by the name of TabWords, and what we do in TabWords is we put tablets behind headrests of Uber cabs across, uh, across India for now, and we broadcast ads, and we broadcast…
- ▶ 16:44 Nathan Latka Any, any partnerships with Uber or Lyft in the works? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:23 Nathan Latka He has over 10,000 of his devices in taxis and Ubers and Lyfts throughout India. 2 times in the scene
EP 612: Sauce Labs Raises $130M (At Great Valuation!) Helping 3500 Customers Execute Concurrent and Parallel High Fidelity Testing with CEO Charles Ramsey
- ▶ 2:16 Nathan Latka He's doing this via a big partnership with Uber.
EP 611: VSee Helping 1000 Customers Use Video To Transact Information with CEO Milton Chen
- ▶ 18:23 Dr. Milton Chen If you think of the whole telehealth space, right, is most people believe is there's, you know, like the days of before Uber, after Uber, before Airbnb, after Airbnb, like before iPhone in there, think about like just access to healthcare,…
EP 584: FlightFox YC Founder: We Talk About When To Quit All The Time, $700k Revenue, Making Travel Way Easier with CEO Lauren Sullivan
- ▶ 7:00 Nathan Latka Are they full-time employees or is this like an Uber driver?
EP 576: Will This Mobile Payments Startup Survive with CEO Rode Luhaaar?
- ▶ 10:50 Rode Luhar Even, even a smaller amount, because right now we are competing with, uh, Taxify and, uh, Uber.
EP 567: EnvoyAmerica Does $160k in 2016 Helping Senior Citizens Get Around with CEO KC Kanaan
- ▶ 7:15 Nathan Latka So, I mean, you, I imagine you deal with a lot of the same economics that Uber deals with, right? 2 times in the scene
EP 566: Scollar Founder Sold Company to AutoDesk in 08 Now Making $99 Smart Pet Collar with CEO Lisa Tamayo
- ▶ 1:20 Nathan Latka There's a lot of very weird similarities to Uber, but who knows if KC can execute.
EP 563: InsightPool Near $300k MRR Helping 100 Big Brands Find Influencers with CEO Devon Wijesinghe
- ▶ 15:26 Devin Wijesinghe That just, I don't, I don't want to try and be cliche, but I just think like how Travis at Uber has positioned his business, not necessarily with all of the hype, but just how tight their business practices are. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 Devin Wijesinghe Um, you know, he is, you know, gone into multiple other product areas and, and all of a sudden now Uber Eats is a normalized thing that people talked about.
EP 552: $300k last 12 months To Help Sales People Find Perfect Gifts with CEO Greg Segall
- ▶ 11:31 Greg Segall Uh, on demand services, think of Uber, think of on demand, dry cleaning, on demand wash, uh, um, you know, uh, washing.
EP 547: Handshake.com Raises $24M, Helping 1000+ Customers Manage Store Product Purchasing with CEO Glen Coates
- ▶ 2:53 Glenn Coates You know, if I want to order a car, I pick up my phone and I order an Uber. 2 times in the scene
EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
- ▶ 12:00 Nathan Latka Does it start with one employee and then you guys have a dashboard and you say, Ooh, Uber started using us.
EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost
- ▶ 11:42 Matthew Jost So we have a company like, um, like, uh, Uber, like Uber, like company that want to advertise.
EP 490: GoldenKey $3.4M Raised, 1000 Units Sold By Agents Using New Technology with CEO Tommy Sowers
- ▶ 4:01 Tommy Sowers Um, the thing that's awesome about it is instead of working with one agent, suddenly kind of Uber-like