Fleet · B2B · laptop rental for companies
Sell a paid add-on to secure and remotely manage rented laptops
~EUR 1M ARR, a small slice of total revenue
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How He Makes $40M/yr Renting Laptops for $50/Mo
HostOh, you So, you you make money in other ways besides just marking up the rental fees?
Sevan MarianI mean majority of the revenue is marking up the relton fee because include I mean the rental is is the machine, uh sp- the guarantee, and the fre- the free version of our SaaS, which is already an advanced version that allows you to uh have a real-time uh uh monitoring of your uh of your fleet. So, this is uh what uh majority of our revenue, and on top of of that, we sell uh we sell sub- cybersecurity uh solutions that allow you to to secure your device, to uh to remo- manage remotely your device, your softwares, and everything. It's called MDM, and this is a little part of our revenue. It's around 1 million ARR today.
HostAll right, Sevan, let's wrap up here. If people want to follow your story after this interview, where can they find you online?
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