Austin McNair

CEO & Co-Founder, VizyPay · 2 appearances on the record.

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Austin Mac Nab is the co-founder and CEO of VizyPay, a payment processing and point-of-sale technology company focused on serving small businesses. He bootstrapped the company past $20 million in annual revenue without venture capital while competing with providers like Square and Toast.

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Insight
McNabb: Increasing sales headcount does not equate to more sales
“We thought more bodies equated to more sales when that's fucking not true. That's not true.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 11:15 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNamby: Major POS competitors charge $15k to $25k cancellation fees
“While most companies will say, Hey, by the way, you're going to owe us 15, 20, 25,000 dollars to cancel because that's the profit we would have made on your account.”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 6:22 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
Opinion
McNamby calls the payments industry a nightmare that exploits people
“It's just a fucking nightmare, our industry in general, of taking advantage of people.”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 19:59 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
Opinion
Large payment providers neglect rural businesses in favor of large cities
“Big companies, and you can probably name them, you know, a couple of them that are on the stock market or not, that their focus has to be in bigger companies. Cities where there's more transactions, bigger population, more payment processing, because they actu…”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 2:38 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNabb: 95% of VisiPay's 100 staff had zero industry experience
“We hired about 95% of our staff. That have no industry experience whatsoever out of almost a hundred employees.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 6:14 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNabb: Full-time W-2 sales reps take six to eight months to achieve ROI
“So what we found out was it takes about six to eight months for ROI on a W two employee to make the money back when it comes down to what we're paying them salary wise, plus, you know, commissions, whatever that's kind of separated.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 10:43 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
McNabb: VisiPay plans to hire no more than two people in 2024
“This year, our goal is to hire no more than like two people. Our goal is not to hire a bunch of people this year.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 11:50 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
Austin McNabb personally guaranteed VisiPay's $1.5 million bank debt
“Did you have to sign a personal guarantee? [904] Austin McNabb: Absolutely.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 15:01 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
Austin McNabb: VisiPay hired the banker who facilitated its loan as CFO
“I mean, the very person that helped us is now our CFO. It's kind of crazy how that works. So a small world, right? So now the very person that understood everything about us is now currently today our CFO.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 16:35 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Insight
McNamby: Rural Businesses Resist Tech Due to Cost and Complexity
“When they want to level up, the technology is way too robust and way too costly with too many long-term contracts. Therefore they resist.”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 3:05 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
Disclosure
VizyPay gives merchants up to $3,000 in free POS equipment
“Well, in our situation, we have an equipment placement program, so based on volume, et cetera, that we will place it there at no cost to them, so we're contributing two, 3000 dollars worth of equipment, you know, to their doorstep, and we give them options to …”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 4:15 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
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VizyPay grew from $12.7M to nearly $18M in revenue in 2022
“You know, in 2021, it was 12.7 million. This last past year was close to eighteen million.”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 16:10 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
Insight
McNamby: Credit card payment volume persists regardless of economic recessions
“Well, the crazy thing is, you know, with this industry, if it's a recession or we're not a recession, everyone uses a credit card. So today, if people don't have money, they're using a credit card. They're going in debt, unfortunately, but they're still using …”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 20:53 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
Disclosure
VisiPay bootstrapped its payment processing business by targeting rural communities
“That's been kind of our differentiator since we started, and that's, I think, helped us excel to the next level, being bootstrapped from the beginning till today, is we are focused strictly on, you know, rural American communities, which we believe technology …”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 2:21 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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VisiPay grew revenue 19% to $21.5M in 2023
“From 2022 to 2023, our growth is about 19%. So we went from eighteen million to about 21.5 million in revenue.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 4:00 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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VisiPay projects $26.5M revenue in 2024
“This year we're anticipating to do around 26 and a half is kind of our revenue projections and goals is another 23% increase we're looking to do.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 4:08 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
Austin McNabb: VisiPay took a $1.5 million loan from a community bank
“Last year was 1.5 million. We worked with the bank on and we worked with them based on our projections and based on our current revenue growth, et cetera.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 13:16 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
VisiPay invested nearly $1M directly into Clover POS hardware
“You know, we basically put almost a million dollars into equipment because we saw it work last year.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 17:45 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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VisiPay processed $1.85B across 35M transactions in 2023
“Last year, we did a 1.85 billion, thirty five million transactions.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 18:41 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNabb: VisiPay has over 125 active 1099 reps and ~500 in training
“We have over a 125 to act of 1089 across the United States. And we have probably close to 500 in training.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 20:59 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNabb: VisiPay paid nearly $1M in monthly sales residuals
“Last, last month alone, we paid well, close to a million dollars of residuals out to W-twos and T-Nine-Nines.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 22:21 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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McNabb: VisiPay reduced residual payout rate from 52% to 43%
“The current market for us revenue streaming out in total when it comes out and that is about 43%, by the way, just because when you incorporate everything, there's deduction callbacks because, you know, accounts cancel, whatever, maybe it's about 43%. But anyw…”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 23:28 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
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Austin McNabb: VisiPay has signed over 13,000 merchant clients
“Today we're a little, we've signed over 13 plus thousand clients.”
Austin McNair Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 27:44 39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
Disclosure
VizyPay Targets Rural Mom-and-Pop Shops Over Major Metro Areas
“We don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas. We focus on mom, pa shops in rural America.”
Austin McNair Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 2:09 Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software Apr 2, 2024 18m
Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintec Feb 16, 2023 14m
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