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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 β€’ 683 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Yahya Mokhtarzada, co-founder of Truebill. Truebill is a free online tool designed to keep track of all of your monthly subscriptions and find ways to save you money. With so many products requiring a subscription fee, Truebill keeps your bills more organized and paid on time.

Famous Five:

Favorite Book? – Onward
What CEO do you follow? β€” Jeff Bezos
Favorite online tool? β€” Ahrefs
Do you get 8 hours of sleep? β€” No chance.
If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be? β€” Take bigger risks.

Time Stamped Show Notes:
01:10 – Nathan introduces Yahya
1:30 – Truebill keeps track of recurring bills and subscriptions
2:00 – Free for users
2:20 – Looking at transactions and making recommendations
2:50 – Business development deals
3:20 – Launched in January 2016
03:40 – Healthy growth each month
04:00 – Up to $50k/month at the end of the year
04:20 – Saving other people money
04:45 –$1.75 million in capital
05:15 – Agreement for future equity
06:20 – User data
06:40 – Deals with businesses for advertising
07:50 – Introducing users to the products of those businesses
09:00 – Total users signed up are 50000
09:25 – Activation metrics
09:50 – Different options to explore for the future
10:30 – β€œthe low-hanging fruit”
11:10 – blog.truebill.com
13:10 -- The Famous Five

3 Key Points:
Consider taking bigger risks when you can afford to do so.
Focus your business model on helping other people.
Start with β€œthe low-hanging fruit” to get your business going.

Resources Mentioned:
Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for cheapest price possible.
Freshbooks - The site Nathan uses to manage his invoices and accounts.
Leadpages – The drag and drop tool Nathan uses to quickly create his webinar landing pages which convert at 35%+
Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he's driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5 hour drive) to listen to audio books.
Ahrefs – Yahya’s favorite online tool for assistance with SEO.
Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Transcript

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This is the top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base.

0:09.0

You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have.

0:16.0

I'm now at $20,000 per talk.

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Five and six million.

0:19.0

He is hell-bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000 units sold mark Five and six million. He is hell bent on global domination.

0:21.2

We just broke our 100,000 unit sole mark.

0:23.9

And I'm your host, Nathan Latka.

0:27.6

Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner is Charlie Dags.

0:31.7

Okay, he was a middle manager at a manufacturing company.

0:35.2

He wants to break free, and he won the $100 I give out every

0:39.1

Monday. For your chance to win, simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes right now and then text

0:44.7

the word Nathan to 3344 to prove that you did it. This is episode 388. Coming up tomorrow morning,

0:51.9

you'll hear from Phil Alexander. He runs concept drop.com,

0:56.2

which just raised $1.1 million and helps you get creative work done quicker, faster, and cheaper.

1:04.0

Good morning, Top Tribe. Our guest this morning is Yaya Muktarzada. He's the co-founder and CEO

1:10.5

of True Bill, a service that allows

1:12.3

users to track, manage, and cancel any paid subscription with one click. Prior to co-founding Truebill,

1:18.6

Yaya served as vice president of business development at Nanigans. Yaya is also a former startup

1:23.7

institute instructor and a mentor at 500 startups.

1:27.8

Yeah, yeah, are you ready to take us to the top?

1:29.8

Absolutely.

1:30.8

All right, tell us what true bill is and how do you guys make money?

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