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🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Simeon has lived in 6 countries and 11 cities. Having helped sell real estate all over the globe, he now runs Spark, a software platform for new development projects with a team of 20 based out of Vancouver. His goal is to change the way new real estate is sold and marketed.
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0:00.0 | Grew up, you know, kind of Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, etc., jumped into real estate, |
0:04.5 | you know, had a big advantage in learning Mandarin, then used that advantage to basically |
0:08.2 | go over to Hong Kong, preset real estate back in Canada, which a lot of money was flowing |
0:12.7 | that direction. |
0:13.7 | He then said, you know what, I want higher margin, less travel. |
0:15.4 | Let's launch a piece of software to help with this. |
0:17.7 | That's what Spark does. |
0:18.7 | They sell directly to the development companies. Development companies then use their platform on a kind of per project basis to sell, |
0:25.0 | manage, and then hold on to data over the long term, which is allowed them to keep churn very low, |
0:29.1 | less than 1% gross logo churn per year. They have over 100 customers paying |
0:32.5 | caught $1100 bucks a month, so about $110,000 monthly recurring revenue. |
0:37.0 | They'll do about $2 million this year as they combine kind of professional |
0:39.3 | services plus that healthy |
0:40.7 | SaaS revenue stream. Again, that's up for |
0:43.3 | about a million just a year ago with their team of |
0:45.3 | 20 in Vancouver. |
0:47.4 | This is the top |
0:49.1 | entrepreneurs podcast where founders |
0:51.6 | share how they started their companies |
0:53.3 | and got filthy rich or crash and |
0:57.1 | burn each episode features revenue numbers customer counts and other insider information that |
1:05.0 | creates business news headlines we went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven |
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