Wave's paying customers average $70 to $100 per month
Kirk Simpson · 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR · Mar 9, 2019 · at 4:06
Kirk Simpson, co-founder and CEO of Wave, describes the company's average revenue per paying micro-business customer to host Nathan Latka.
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“So up in the 70 to a hundred dollar range on our paying customers for all of their transaction processing, et cetera.”
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