He Crowdfuned $1m. You Won't Believe Why with Christian Smith of Trackr Ep 13
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.7 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm now at $20,000 per talk. |
| 0:18.6 | Five and six million. |
| 0:19.5 | He is hell bent on global domination. |
| 0:21.6 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sole mark. |
| 0:23.6 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
| 0:26.6 | In the last episode, number 11, you met Carrie Wilkerson and learned how she easily gets $17,000 per speaking engagement by always being |
| 0:40.2 | in demand with the very particular phrasing technique in her emails. |
| 0:47.2 | All right. |
| 0:48.0 | Our guest today is Christian Smith. |
| 0:50.7 | Now, Christian co-founded Tracker with his partner out of college to help people keep track of their |
| 0:56.4 | keys, wallet, and other items. He's raised over $1 million on Indiegogo and grew the company to over |
| 1:02.8 | 250,000 units sold. Based in Santa Barbara, California, he's excited about putting a tracker in the |
| 1:10.5 | back pocket of every human to help the world keep track of their items. |
| 1:16.4 | Christian, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:18.9 | Definitely. |
| 1:19.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:20.9 | You are so welcome. |
| 1:21.9 | Before we jump in and before we start, you know, getting in here so the Top Tribe gets a ton of value. Anything about your bio that I missed that you think they should know? |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, so just a little bit more about the story behind Tracker. |
| 1:36.5 | My co-founder and I were going surfing at a place in California that you can park on the beach. |
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