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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q Yep. Got it. Okay. Makes good sense. So what's the backstory here? When did you launch the company?
A Yeah. So I actually started when I was in college and so amongst our competitors and us, we have a white label reseller program. So, um, basically what you can do is take our platforms and Completely brand it as your own and start selling to your own customers. And that's actually how I got started. So I was white labeling one of our competitors products. What year? Let's see. That would have been 2012. I think I just got started and then we became, I think I incorporated in March of 2013. Um, but started off as a reseller, started, um, you know, just with a couple hundred bucks a month. And then we ended up building up a 300,000 dollar recurring revenue stream in 12 months. And we realized like, Hey, there's some serious potential here.
AI assessment note: “That would have been 2012... I think I incorporated in March of 2013.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And so give us some of the growth story here. So, so 2013, 20 14, you're doing 304 hundred grand a month ish. What'd you get up to in 2015?
A In 2015, let's see, 2015, I think that's when we broke the one million a year mark, um, so, and it was interesting, so as we, as we launched our first version of our platform, um, in our own technology, we had all these people signing up, and one thing that we noticed was a lot of people with apps, they wanted all this custom functionality, and we didn't build it in a way where people could build You know, custom features. Cause that's, that's kind of what you, what you get with all the, like our competitors today. Even so in January of 2016, uh, we launched version two point over our platform. We basically rebuilt everything from the ground up on a very modular architecture where basically what people can do is they can, um, you know, get 80 to 90% of the functionality that they need for their app just with all of our out of box features. Cause why reinvent the wheel when we already have those features readily available? And then You know, people can just build that custom feature, um, that's just unique to their business. So, um, you can get a fully custom mobile app at a fraction of the cost. And that's where we really started to see things taken off once we kind of introduced that notion.
AI assessment note: “I think that's when we broke the one million a year mark”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Who was your first like developer? I mean, what'd you do? Hire freelancers on top tower or something to build your initial version?
A So, um, our CTO, he was actually the guy, um, who started building our technology initially. And he, he, uh, started a company called flywheel. Have you ever heard of that one? No, they were like Uber before Uber. And so if you're ever up in San Francisco, you see like the red taxi cabs flywheel. Like that was his baby, um, early on. So he was running an outsourced engineering team. And I got connected with him and he started, you know, building our initial technology. And then once he started to see like that, we actually had a pretty decent amount of traction. Um, he came on full time and it's been unbelievable. Um, you know, if, if you don't have, uh, the right development expertise in the house, especially trying to build like a very complex SAS product, um, you can end up in a world of trouble. Yeah.
AI assessment note: “our CTO, he was actually the guy, um, who started building our technology initially.”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q All right. Tell us about build flare. What's it doing? How do you make money? Yeah.
A So build fire. We're a mobile app building platform that allows non-technical people to sign up and start building their own mobile app with no coding required. However, we also allow for a lot of extensibility. So I like to kind of think of us like the WordPress for mobile apps in many ways where, um, you can have anyone who's never built an, uh, built a website before fire up, you know, uh, a WordPress site. And then, um, it also powers some of the largest websites in the world. So in the same way with build fire, like anyone can get started building an app, but you can build unlimited amount of functionality if you, if you need for your app.
AI assessment note: “We're a mobile app building platform that allows non-technical people to sign up”
