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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Intrepid entrepreneur, explorer and video-gamer, Pedro has been in the startup world for 10 years having co-founded 4 projects and 2 successful exits mostly in the B2B space. His passion for collective sports and traveling has given him a broad perspective of the world, which he uses to daily guide his business towards, success...hopefully
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0:00.0 | launched his company back in 2016, again, helping really utility companies collect their debts on |
0:05.7 | time, making sure there's no delays. They do this in kind of a premeditative way. So they reach out |
0:10.2 | beforehand to some of these people that owe money, make sure they don't get late. And then afterwards, |
0:14.1 | they kind of help those folks collect, even when there are late payments. They have about 15 |
0:17.4 | customers right now paying $3,000 a month, $45 grand per month right now, and revenue up from nothing a year ago because they just launched cash flow positive bootstrap |
0:24.1 | team of six in Portugal and Spain got their first customers by using LinkedIn search and a little |
0:28.4 | three mess, three sentence message to reach out to them, help asking if they wanted to |
0:32.6 | collect their money faster. Too early to talk about economics. They are looking to raise right now 500 grand on a 1.5 |
0:37.6 | million dollar pre-money valuation. Hello everyone. My guest today is Pedro Mendez. He's an |
0:42.8 | intrepid entrepreneur, he's been in the startup world for 10 years, having co-founded four |
0:47.1 | projects and had two successful exits, mostly in the BDB space. His passion for collective |
0:51.1 | sports and traveling has given him a broad perspective of the world, |
0:58.4 | which uses to daily guide his business towards success. Hopefully, he's currently working on invisible collector.com. Pedro, are you ready to take us to the top? Okay. All right. |
1:03.8 | So tell us about the company. What's the company do and how do you make money? |
1:08.0 | Okay, so we're dealing in a new commodity, which is debt. |
1:14.4 | What we do, we help companies get their money back faster. |
1:17.8 | 76% of the money transacted worldwide is now based on credits, and we found out a good space to work is that companies don't really structure that well, how they perform their |
1:27.5 | receivable. So we came up with an idea to have a cloud system that absorbs everything that must |
1:32.7 | be paid on a given date, but it's not. And we structure an AI-based interaction system with those |
1:39.9 | kinds of customers to stimulate their payment. Okay, so this is like if someone owes company X, who's your customer, |
1:46.4 | a thousand bucks a month, and they miss the payment on the first of the month, |
1:49.6 | you're going to reach out to the customer and say, hey, don't forget to pay. |
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