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David Leeds

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
176 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Typically, the

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

The paper-based or even the physical gift cards, maybe even to a local restaurant where those numbers can be quite a bit higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

It's very low on the types of gift cards that we work with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Yeah, so launched the company in late 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

This was a couple of years after I wrapped up at my last company that you mentioned, Fiber Tower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

And I just got really intrigued with payments and specifically payments over wireless networks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

And really through the process of some research, learned a lot about gift cards for both consumer and enterprise applications and was surprised by the size of the industry, the fragmentation of the industry, and frankly, the

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

opportunity to innovate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

So I just spent a bunch of time and then launched the company in late 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Well, so 2010 was zero or maybe a couple of dollars because it was late, but 2011 was probably, I don't know, $70,000 or so of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

I mean, the business, of course, has changed a little bit, but the core economics have been the same.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

So the team is 80.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

We've got 70 people in Seattle, Washington, which is our headquarters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

And then we've got a 10-person engineering team in Boise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Idaho.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

So I've created a, um, basically an engineering outpost to try and help with some of the challenges associated with recruiting talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

And it's worked out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

It's worked out fantastic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Which one are you in Seattle or Boise?