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🗓️ 4 January 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | That's scripted for seven years before ultimately selling that company to Jonathan and Zenon Ventures. |
0:04.5 | You call it kind of mini private equity now focused on kind of two companies. |
0:07.9 | One is Parrot QA, basically testing, you know, done in a more easy way. |
0:12.1 | They've got about five customers paying 100 bucks per month. |
0:14.1 | So 500 bucks a month there, got those customers by using Facebook ads, spending about a grand to get a new $100 a month customer. Just him really focused on it, |
0:21.3 | mainly with some other family members based obviously in California, but also building Skylight, |
0:25.7 | which is a multimillion dollar kind of e-commerce business with a software component that |
0:28.8 | just added behind it. Hello, everybody. My guest today is Jake Cring. He is a jack of many, |
0:35.5 | many trades, a master of couple. He's a builder by instinct manager by |
0:39.0 | heart and a marketer by necessity. He loves writing code, assembling teams and measuring growth. |
0:43.7 | He built his current company, Parrot QA to scratch an itch. Functional testing is a headache |
0:48.1 | and customers hate bugs. There has to be a better way. Jake, are you ready to take us to the top? |
0:52.8 | Sure, yeah. All right, so tell us how |
0:55.4 | the tool actually works. People are familiar, obviously, with other tools in the space, |
0:59.2 | like call it a user testing or Rainforest QA. How do you differentiate? Yeah, so as far as I know, |
1:05.6 | there's nothing else in the space that allows you to do the full test setup, test management, |
1:12.8 | test running without writing any code. |
1:18.5 | And it's all cloud. You don't have to install anything on your desktop. You don't have to install an extension. You actually just, you start by just typing in the URL to your website. And from there, |
1:24.4 | you just sort of click through our cloud portal and build uh build tests um as far as |
1:29.8 | i know there's nothing else that offers uh totally codeless solution interesting and is this is your |
1:34.9 | business model pure place ss yep okay great so give me like give me an example what's the average |
1:39.7 | customer pay you per month for this uh 100 bucks. 100 bucks are average revenue per user. |
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