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Douglas Lusted

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
106 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So link it is an analytics platform for the out of home advertising industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So if you see a digital screen advertising anything in a mall or an airport, for example, we do all of the metrics and analytics behind that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Uh, we essentially are counting how many people see the ad for how long, how many times, and if they actually converted on what was being advertised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So your physical version of Google AdSense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So we sell it as an annual subscription to the network owners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So the guys who own the digital screens or sometimes we'll sell it directly to the advertiser who wants to see that data back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

I was actually a student.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So this is my first venture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

I was a student at University of Waterloo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

There was a pitch competition for 25 grand and that sounded pretty appealing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

And somehow I won it off a pitch deck and it all kind of spiraled.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

Yes, I have two co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

I have a CTO named Vlad, who's a master's graduate in artificial intelligence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

So he's in his own little world and develops all the technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

And I actually partnered with an old BlackBerry executive named Ashok Patel, who actually helped build the first BlackBerry curve back in the day and now does our hardware as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

No, I was the original founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 363: Google AdSense for Physical BillBoards Does $250k with Douglas Lusted

I can't disclose the exact amount, but I'm the majority.

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