StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

David Hollander

Founder & CEO, Order Desk · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderexecutiveengineer@dhollander ↗orderdesk.com ↗

David Hollander founded Order Desk in 2014, building a platform that automates e-commerce order workflows and fulfillment across hundreds of integrations. Originally created as a side project during his career as a freelance developer, he scaled the business into a multi-million-dollar ARR company without outside funding.

10statements → 8claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 1.3/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hollander: OrderDesk has 230 third-party API integrations
“We have 230 integrations with different, different APIs, different third parties.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 2:35 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of David Hollander on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything David Hollander said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Hollander calls venture capital risky and prefers slow, healthy bootstrapped growth
“No, no. I'm very happy to bootstrap. I'm pretty risk averse, and to me, raising venture capital feels pretty risky. I would much rather grow the company slowly at the risk of growing fast. I'd rather do what's Healthy for the company and not focus so much on g…”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 17:36 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Disclosure
OrderDesk acquires all customers without advertising or sales teams
“We don't do any sales, so we don't do any advertising. So we get all of our, all, everybody comes through people who are searching for something that we do, or they're coming from a marketplace like the Shopify marketplace or the big commerce marketplace for i…”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 9:56 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OrderDesk generates $60,000 monthly gross revenue and $10,000 monthly profit
“We've grossed 60. And we've got we're and about 10 K a month in profit right now.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 3:56 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hollander: OrderDesk processes about 500,000 orders per month
“So right now we're doing about 500,000 orders a month.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 6:18 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OrderDesk grew from $38,000 to $60,000 in monthly revenue over one year
“A year ago, we were doing about 38 right now.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 8:29 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OrderDesk sees revenue jump 60% in Q4 due to e-commerce seasonality
“So what happens in Q four, because we're very, very seasonal Q four, our numbers go through the roof. We actually get Our numbers go up like 60% in Q four.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 14:52 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Supported
Hollander: OrderDesk has 230 third-party API integrations
“We have 230 integrations with different, different APIs, different third parties.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 2:35 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hollander says most of OrderDesk's platform volume goes through Shopify
“I would say we'd see probably the majority of our platform goes through Shopify. That's probably what we see most of it.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 2:54 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hollander: OrderDesk has approximately 750 customers
“We have about 750 customers.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 4:51 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hollander: OrderDesk averages $75 monthly revenue per customer
“We're actually averaging 75 dollars a month per customer.”
David Hollander Dec 2, 2020 ▶ 5:27 OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange Dec 2, 2020 8m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more