Jay Desai

Co-Founder, Lumi Heart · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jay Desai is the founder and former CEO of PatientPing, a healthcare coordination platform acquired by Bamboo Health in 2021. He previously worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and currently builds Lumi Heart while actively angel investing.

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Insight

Desai: Keeping a day job prevents desperate startup revenue grabs

“It makes it a little bit easier where it feels like instead of coming from a place of like, I need to start making revenue like as fast as possible because I need to recoup my investment, which is essentially draining from my personal bank account. To, Hey, li…”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 2:12 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

Assertion Partly supported

Summarize.com pioneered per-minute pricing that competitors later copied, says Desai

“We actually did it first. So I started per minute and then now basically all the other competitors are also charging per minute as well.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 10:45 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

Disclosure

Why Desai gave up 50% equity to a technical co-founder

“We actually decided to split it down the middle. And the reason for that is because a few other competitors started popping up as well around the same time. And I don't have a technical background and these other competitors also had like two or three co-found…”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 4:04 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

Disclosure

Desai personally invested just $100 to bootstrap Summarize.com

“Completely bootstrap. My investment personally was about a hundred dollars, which we've way more than over like got back at this point.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 6:09 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

Disclosure

Desai will quit his day job when Summarize hits $20k MRR

“So for me, I think our goal for the end of the year is to reach about 20 K and MRR. That's our big like goal. I think we're making a lot of progress over there and that can be, it doesn't necessarily have to be a hundred percent, 20 K MRR. It could be 20 K and…”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 6:32 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

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Summarize.com operates profitably with a monthly burn under $325

“So our monthly, our burn essentially per month is about 250 dollars. The last time I checked this month, we might be actually closer to about 300 or 325. But yeah, we are profitable.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 8:24 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

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Desai: Summarize.com average order value is about $28 monthly

“So our average customer pays us close to 30 dollars a month. I think our, the last time I checked our average order value is about 28 dollars.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 3:21 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

Disclosure

Desai built the Summarize.com MVP in one week using no-code

“It took me about a week to build out the MVP. We get a break actually at Captivate Talent between Christmas and New Year. So I spent that week building out a first version of the product. Launched at January first. And the first version was built on no code.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 3:38 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

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Summarize.com has 30 subscription customers and 70 total paying users

“So we have about 30 customers on the actual subscription, but we also have a pay-as-you-go model, and we've acquired more customers through there. So we have like a total of 70 customers, around 70 customers that are basically have paid for the product at some…”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 4:46 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

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Summarize.com reached $3,400 in month-to-date revenue by July 2023

“And then this month, actually, month to date, we've already done about 3400 dollars.”

Jay Desai Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 5:22 Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Non Tech Founder Quickly Gives Up 50% To Tech Co-Founder To Scale Revenue Faster	Sep 7, 2023	9m

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