1675 Doesn't The CEO Have to Be The First Salesperson?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Founder, CEO, Marketer, and Architect of Thapos - sports management platform.

I have over 18 years of experience in IT industry as a technology startup founder, software architect, product manager, marketer, and software engineer. I have experienced in all aspects of software development life cycle. I have designed and developed marketing management applications, financial applications, and web-based consumer applications.

As a leader or team member, I love to work with teams. I truly believe in teamwork. I am an extremely energetic and highly motivated individual with excellent analytical, organizational and adaptive skills with a passion, to get things done. I enjoy playing and watching sports, working with kids, history, internet, and some television.

As an entrepreneur, my first startup was a failure, which only made me stronger. I learned a lot of valuable lessons in this failure. Thapos is my second startup which is going strong. My current team really functions like a team. At Thapos, we all are determined to make it happen and take it to the next level and I am loving every minute of this exciting journey.

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0:00.0	Thoughtboast, again, building it, helping sports teams, sports organizations stay more efficient.
0:05.6	125 using them right now, paying 42 bucks a month. So about 5,000, 6,000 per month right now,
0:09.8	and revenue up from nothing a year ago. So again, just getting the wheels going here.
0:13.2	Raise about 250 grand from friends and family. 20 people in India building the team, obviously,
0:18.2	cost savings there. 10% logo churn per year currently, as
0:22.1	Shrini looks to scout.
0:23.8	Hello, everybody.
0:24.4	My guest today is Shrini Shidretti.
0:26.7	He is the founder, CEO, marketer, and architect of Athopo, so sports management platform.
0:32.4	Shrini, are you ready to take us to the top?
0:34.3	Yes, Nathan, I have.
0:35.4	Okay, tell us about the company.
0:36.7	What do you guys do?
0:37.8	What's the revenue model? How do you make money? Okay, so we provide a complete platform for youth sports
0:44.2	organizations, including everybody in the organization. So we make money through a subscription model
0:50.2	and also we take a cut from the transactions that happens on the platform.
0:56.8	Plus, we have a few other revenue models we're working on, which is a marketplace where
1:01.7	we want to connect all the sports organizations and its members to the service providers,
1:07.7	like uniform providers and background checks and stuff like that.
1:12.1	June, you mean sports teams.
1:13.3	You mean like the local kind of kiddie league soccer team with 12 students, 12 people on it
1:18.6	and 20 parents?
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