Wave

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Mar 9, 2019
Insight
Fintech LTV must use gross margin, not gross payment volume
“Essentially in our business, because we're paying out to Visa and MasterCard and Amex on our payments revenue, It's important to not look at the gross revenue, but instead to the net, right? And to like take lifetime times by your net revenue to get a true vie…”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 12:36 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wave will likely surpass $50M in ARR by 2020
“Likely next year.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 17:26 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wave acquires roughly 70,000 of its 80,000 monthly signups organically
“Of the 80,000, as I've said, you know, about 70,000 are coming in organically.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 15:39 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
Insight
Bank connections and invoicing are key early SaaS retention signals
“I mean, things like connect your bank account. So you're importing your transactions send out a couple of invoices, accept a couple of electronic payments, those kinds of things. Those are huge signals of success long-term.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 8:20 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wave has nearly 200 employees and zero sales reps
“We're closing in on 200 people in the company. We don't have a single sales rep that works here. Not an inside sales rep, not an outside sales rep.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 8:47 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
Disclosure
Kirk Simpson: Wave shifted from Stripe to in-house infrastructure as it scaled
“Our payments business, for instance, was built on top of Stripe. We get to a point of scale and quite frankly, our users want us to deeply integrate it. And so most of this stuff over time, we've been building ourselves.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 3:10 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Wave plans to pursue M&A roll-ups to expand platform capabilities
“Yes, absolutely. We think the platform is valuable and we'll be at a place soon where we can look at doing that just in terms of robust APIs and more of a microservices type engineering culture.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 19:02 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 neutral
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Wave's paying customers average $70 to $100 per month
“So up in the 70 to a hundred dollar range on our paying customers for all of their transaction processing, et cetera.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 4:06 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 positive
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Very few Wave users escalate from Drift chatbots to humans
“The amount of them that are going from the bot into wanting to interact with a human is very small.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 21:23 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 neutral
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Wave freemium users sometimes take 24 months to convert to paid
“And you know, the interesting thing that we see Nathan is that we'll get some people to be paying in the first month. And then we'll have others who are using the free platform for 24 months, and on the 25th month, convert into pay.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 10:39 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
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Wave maintains a fully loaded CAC under $70
“It is.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 13:28 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 bullish
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Wave is growing revenue close to 100% year-over-year
“We're growing at a healthy, healthy clip. We're not quite a hundred, but we're close.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 16:15 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019
Disclosure
Wave offers free core software to monetize through embedded fintech
“We give away our invoicing and accounting software, 100% for free. And then we monetize by putting payments, payroll lending offers, et cetera, in the application and get those deeply embedded into what the small business owners are doing.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 2:44 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 9, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Wave maintains monthly gross logo churn below 2%
“Yeah, we're seeing that we're below two percent.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 8:10 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
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