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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Dane is a PLA co-founder who brings a breadth of experience and vision to Performance Livestock Analytics. Dane currently owns a progressive agricultural enterprise that consists of row crops and livestock based in Northern Iowa. With the Agricultural experience, Dane brings visionary insights to PLA with his prior experience in precision ag software. Dane most recently leads Iteris as the Sales Director for the agricultural division of ClearAg. Prior to ClearAg, Dane led the business development efforts in the midwest as the Regional Sales Manager at The Climate Corporation, formerly WeatherBill, assisting in scaling the team and sales from a 27 person start up company to a 700 employee company that was acquired by Monsanto for 930 million. Dane has participated in many Agtech venues such as Agstar Technolodge, Global Ag Investment Conference, Ag Innovation Showcase, InfoAg, World Agritech Conference, Agri Innovation Forum.
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0:00.0 | Dane is now working with over $150 farmers that pay $150 a month. |
0:05.0 | So doing about $127 grand per month in revenue, |
0:07.4 | helping them manage and measure and automate and understand the data related to feeding and cattle |
0:13.0 | and just managing all the head of livestock that they're managing across these farms. |
0:17.1 | He saw this opportunity after being hyper-focused on really optimization of row crops |
0:21.0 | back in Silicon Valley. Now launched this company capitalized with $2.7 million bucks in capital, |
0:25.3 | 20 million, sorry, 20 people on the team between Iowa and remote locations, about 5% or less than |
0:30.2 | 5% revenue churn per year, getting ready to add additional products, drive upsells. |
0:33.9 | And in terms of acquisition, spending about 300 bucks to get a new $150 a month customer, so two-month payback as he looks and doubles down on market adoption via channel |
0:41.5 | partners. |
0:43.2 | Hello, everyone, my guest today is Dane Cooper. |
0:45.7 | He's a PLA co-founder who brings a breadth of experience and vision to performance, |
0:49.3 | livestock analytics. |
0:50.7 | He currently owns a progressive agricultural enterprise that consists of raw crops and |
0:55.0 | livestock based in northern Iowa. Now he's building cattlecrush.com. Dan, are you ready to take it |
1:00.0 | to the top? Yeah, you bet. All right. So tell us what cattle crush is and what the business model is. |
1:04.5 | How do you make money? Yeah, so we're a, we're a SaaS platform for the livestock industry. |
1:09.4 | So we provide a software platform that |
1:11.8 | livestock operations manage their data on. And tell us again, tell us about like how an average |
1:17.8 | customer might use you. Are you talking SMB like smaller farms, mid-sized farms or enterprise |
1:21.4 | scale efforts? Yeah, no, it's it's all the above. You know, initially we worked with a lot of |
1:26.7 | small, medium size, |
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