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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1327 Prague Based Translation Tool Passes $5m in ARR, Bootstrapped

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

David Canek is the founder and CEO of Memsource, a software company providing cloud-based translation technology headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. David, a graduate in Translation and Comparative Studies, received his education at Charles University in Prague, Humboldt University in Berlin as well as University of Vienna.

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0:00.0

launched MemSource translation companies, selling really to freelancers,

0:03.3

translation professionals, launched in 2010, bootstrapped it all the way up today,

0:07.6

500 customers doing past $5 million run rate in December of 2017, hoping to double that

0:12.6

over the next 12 to 24 months to $10 million.

0:15.5

Economics sound like they look good, less than 3% net revenue churn per month,

0:19.9

totally willing to spend at conferences,

0:21.9

you know, spend 10 grand to get five customers, 2KKKKK, with a quick payback period because

0:26.1

they are typically signing up new people at 5 grand a month, all paid up front.

0:30.0

The team of 80 based in remote locations all around the world.

0:34.1

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies

0:40.0

and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts,

0:49.5

and other insider information that creates business news headlines.

0:54.7

We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.

0:58.0

I had no money when I started the company.

0:59.9

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

1:03.3

We're a bit strapped.

1:04.3

We have like 22,000 customers.

1:08.2

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc

1:13.7

are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka,

1:19.4

and here's today's episode. Hello, everybody. My guest today is David Chania. He's the founder

1:24.9

and CEO of a company called MemSource, a software company providing

1:27.8

cloud-based translation technology, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. David, a graduate in

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