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Ben Borton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
248 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We are kind of approaching 3 million in contracted ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We have a little over 200 locations signed up on the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I think we're over 2,000 quarts now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

The videos and replays functionality, they can be monetized with sponsors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Pickleball is growing like crazy in the US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You know, fastest growing kind of sport by a pretty wide margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

$8 million Series A round led by Frontier Growth, which is kind of an OG investor in the vertical SaaS space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We look at what is the average revenue per hour used, about $30 per hour across everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Enhancing the in-club playing experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We do things like digital scoreboards and video replays.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

There's a viral component to video replays that go social.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I mean, my co-founder, Max Kogler, and I both, we managed a hedge fund together back in the day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So this is kind of our second tour of duty together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I was the seed investor in his hedge fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And we like to say those were our days of turning math into money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

But it left both of us feeling a little bit empty from kind of purpose standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We were doing kind of complex options trading strategies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

It was fun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

It was like playing chess and doing games.

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