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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

No, I mean, average is trending up closer to 10 per location.

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

And so I think we're over 2000 quarts now.

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

Now, if you're a software client, on average, it takes kind of one to two months from from kind of signing to going live for the hardware enabled clubs.

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

We have a longer lead time.

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

Both because it's kind of a more involved process and because we have a backlog on that side.

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

So I'd say the average on that side is somewhere between four and six months.

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

So there's a little bit of a lag between those two.

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

So, yeah, we put it, peg it between 100 and 200.

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

Yes, more than 100 percent, less than 200 percent.

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

We raised money that...

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

$10 million Series A was for PingPod.

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

That was sort of before PodPlay existed.

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

And yes, some of the money from that was kind of the initial seeding of the PodPlay business.

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

We spun out PodPlay as a standalone entity in August of this year, which was a prelude to raising a Series A for standalone PodPlay, which we did in October.

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

So $8 million Series A round led by Frontier Growth.

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

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're super excited to kind of, you know, lock arms with them.

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

They've been investing in vertical SaaS since 1999 before, you know, I say before vertical SaaS was a thing.

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

They've invested in, you know, some big names that you would know from the vertical SaaS space.

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

They, you know, focus entirely on vertical SaaS.