His startup grew to $100M in revenue. Almost every customer came inbound.

He never bought a keyword or ran ads. Almost every customer came to him instead. Rodney Robinson is the co-founder and CEO of TabaPay, a payments company that gives fintechs one API to move money instantly in both directions, in and out. TabaPay runs at $100 million in revenue with about 150 people, profitable, growing 35 to 40 percent a year. It got there on a single $2.5 million seed round that stayed the company's only outside money for nine years. Rodney built the inbound engine by processing payments for about 20 sponsor banks and becoming a major Visa Direct acquirer, then letting those banks and the card networks refer fintechs to him. Stay for 22:20 where Rodney explains why he thinks outbound sales is finished in B2B, after testing it twice and watching it fail both times. 🔑 KEY LESSONS 1. Build what the incumbent is forbidden to build: Mastercard would not add pull payments because it would compete with its biggest processors. That structural refusal, not a missed feature, was the opening TabaPay walked through. 2. Make the trusted party your sales channel: Fintechs do not know a new processor, but they trust their bank and Visa. TabaPay processes for about 20 banks and lets those relationships generate its inbound pipeline. 3. Solve revenue before expense: Rodney paid vendors above market to reach the market in a year, charged what it would bear, then displaced the vendors later. Getting to revenue outranked protecting early margin. 4. Chase minnows, not whales: The first ten customers were small fintechs where the founders already knew each other. Those minnows grew into whales, and the relationship carried through the growth. 5. Reliability is the product for infrastructure: Three vendors at 99 percent availability leaves you down about 3 percent of the time. Customers bet their business on payments working, so TabaPay took the stack in house. 6. Price for commoditization: Rodney assumes processing fees fall as clients grow and protects total account revenue with fraud and risk services layered on top, rather than defending a margin he cannot hold. 7. Expect arrows in year one: Six months in, another company claimed TabaPay stole its software and the sponsor bank dropped them. They won, but only because there was nothing to find. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 01:26 What TabaPay does 02:33 The problem Mastercard would not solve 03:35 $100M in revenue with 150 people 04:41 The $2.5M round that lasted nine years 05:29 Raising $155M and buying a bank 07:59 Finding the wedge by listening 10:31 How the money actually moves 11:43 A year to build the first version 11:53 Solving revenue before expense 13:38 Pledging his house for a sponsor bank 14:20 Landing the first ten customers 15:02 Chasing minnows instead of whales 17:24 When vendors go down 18:12 Owning the stack end to end 19:53 Channels that wasted time 21:53 Building the inbound engine 22:20 Why outbound sales is dead in B2B 25:35 Pricing against commoditization 26:50 Fraud data as a value-add 29:08 The lawsuit that cost them their bank 31:56 Making every customer feel like the biggest 33:14 Why buy a bank 35:50 Lightning round 🎧 Full Show Notes: https://saasclub.io/495 💌 Get weekly 5-minute SaaS insights: https://saasclub.io/email #SaaS #SaaSFounder #InboundMarketing #Fintech #B2BSales #Startups

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