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This SAAS Business Will Make Over 100 Million (Software as a Service) | My First million Podcast

Name: This SAAS Business Will Make Over 100 Million (Software as a Service) | My First million Podcast
Uploaded: 2020-06-22
Duration: 11 min 22 s
Description: Breakdown of Arc Publishing, the Washington Post's SaaS spin-out (later sold to Cox), which is on track to $100M+ revenue. Sam walks through the model and Shaan riffs on adjacent SAAS opportunities — most notably a SAAS for podcasting tools (hosting, transcription, monetisation, distribution).

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Synopsis

Breakdown of Arc Publishing, the Washington Post's SaaS spin-out (later sold to Cox), which is on track to $100M+ revenue. Sam walks through the model and Shaan riffs on adjacent SAAS opportunities — most notably a SAAS for podcasting tools (hosting, transcription, monetisation, distribution).

Ideas in this episode

SaaS tools for content creators
Sam and Shaan's podcast-tools riff on the Arc Publishing breakdown can be applied to productise a source-story-to-video pipeline into a 'podcast-to-YouTube-Shorts' SaaS for niche creators, charging a monthly fee and reusing a local LLM plus existing AI agents.