732: Why AirBnB Is Using Jumio Along With Many Other Unicorns

Published: July 26, 2017, 9 a.m.

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Stephen Stuut. He\\u2019s the CEO of Jumio.com. He brings more than 25 years of experience fueling corporate growth and leading technology businesses. Before Jumio, he served as a CEO of TruePosition, a leader in location-based service technology. Prior to that, he was a president and CEO of Broadband Innovations delivering digital interactivity services to cable TV providers. During his 10 years, he has raised over $30M in equity from venture capital firms and strategic investors and ultimately sold the company to Motorola in December of 2005.

Famous Five:

  • Favorite Book? \\u2013 A Book from McKinsey
  • What CEO do you follow? \\u2013 John Mallone and Greg Maffei
  • Favorite online tool? \\u2014 Outlook
  • How many hours of sleep do you get?\\u2014 8
  • If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? \\u2013 \\u201cTravel just a little bit less when your kids are young\\u201d

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

  • 01:28 \\u2013 Nathan introduces Stephen to the show
  • 02:10 \\u2013 Jumio is a SaaS business, particularly, trusted identity as a service
    • 02:18 \\u2013 Jumio does identity verification and document verification
    • 02:35 \\u2013 Jumio will validate the ID, making sure it isn\\u2019t fraudulent
    • 02:40 \\u2013 Jumio does biometric facial comparisons from the selfie picture and ID picture for identity verification
  • 03:11 \\u2013 Jumio\\u2019s customers are merchants who need to know the identity of a person
  • 03:19 \\u2013 Airbnb is one of Jumio\\u2019s customers
  • 03:29 \\u2013 Jumio caters to airlines, bitcoin companies and banks that have money-laundering requirements
  • 04:13 \\u2013 \\u201cThe world is moving to the internet online clamors\\u201d
  • 04:17 \\u2013 Walking into a building and flashing your ID is quite inconvenient
  • 04:58 \\u2013 Some, like Nathan, don\\u2019t bother to change their license ID even if it\\u2019s unrecognizable
  • 05:35 \\u2013 Customers typically pay 1 year worth of transactions in advance
  • 05:49 \\u2013 Average contract price
  • 07:17 \\u2013 Stephen isn\\u2019t the founder but is a CEO who came in later
  • 07:23 \\u2013 The founder started Jumio after he argued with a credit card about his identification
  • 08:15 \\u2013 Jumio was founded in 2014 and Stephen came in 2 years after they launched
  • 08:32 \\u2013 Stephen was brought in by the investors
  • 08:48 \\u2013 Jumio has raised $60M to date
  • 09:14 \\u2013 Jumio just broke in 150K identity verifications in a single day
  • 10:02 \\u2013 The investors of Jumio
  • 10:48 \\u2013 Jumio has processed 26M verifications in 2016
  • 10:55 \\u2013 2017 verification number
  • 11:21 \\u2013 The team in 2015 was around 90 and now it\\u2019s around 110 in the west and a thousand in India
  • 12:01 \\u2013 Jumio is a hybrid blend of computer vision, facial recognition and human integration into one
  • 12:27 \\u2013 Stephen is an optical engineer and has designed laser weapons
  • 13:14 \\u2013 Jumio is well-known in the fintech and economy space
  • 13:25 \\u2013 Jumio has a sales force direct with a team of around 20
  • 13:50 \\u2013 Jumio does trade shows in the marketplace
  • 14:28 \\u2013 Jumio has the top 4 unicorns as customers
  • 15:34 \\u2013 Different markets have different value that they see from the pricing activity
  • 16:51 \\u2013 \\u201cThis is very much a grab the market share and its transactions\\u201d
  • 17:40 \\u2013 The Famous Five

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3 Key Points:

  1. It\\u2019s a relief to know that verifying your identification can be easily done.
  2. Pricing value affects different markets greatly.
  3. Spend more time with your kids while they\\u2019re young.

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Resources Mentioned:

  • The Top Inbox \\u2013 The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences
  • Klipfolio \\u2013 Track your business performance across all departments for FREE
  • Hotjar \\u2013 Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you\\u2019re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience
  • Acuity Scheduling \\u2013 Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments
  • Host Gator\\u2013 The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible
  • Audible\\u2013 Nathan uses Audible when he\\u2019s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books

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