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Parker: Form Piper and Financing Your Way net 50% to 60% profit margin

Brad Parker · Pet Land Riches! 60% Profit Margins on $100m SaaS Fintech Play · Mar 8, 2021 · at 11:57

Brad Parker, co-founder of Form Piper and Financing Your Way, discusses the bottom-line profitability of his merged fintech and SaaS business with host Nathan Latka.

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“When looking at the P and L, you know, it drops about 50 to 60% profit, you know, to the bottom line.”

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“And that's just how consumers shop, right? They're shopping based on the monthly payment that they can add to their budget, you know? So you need to be able to have products that can get that payment as low as possible.”
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Disclosure
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Disclosure
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“Yeah, it's on average about one and a half percent.”
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