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Gavin Wheeldon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

These were engines that were built specifically for a company or a specific project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

So they were highly accurate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

And then we would have humans go in and tidy up any of the mistakes that the engine had made, which meant it was a lot, lot quicker and obviously a lot cheaper.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

Why did you sell it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

I'd done nine years, I guess, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

How old were you when you sold it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

I was, how old was I?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

36.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

Yeah, 36.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

And you had bootstrapped it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

Back bedroom, run up a load of credit card debt, hooked up the house and the mortgage and all those good things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

There was no, or there still is no particular single owner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

You've got Boingo, who are very big in airports.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

They focus pretty much exclusively in that area.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

You've got Fon, who do a lot of the domestic hotspots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

How do you spell that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

It's F-O-N.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

And I guess that typically our competitors are traditional utility Wi-Fi players like AT&T Wi-Fi.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections

So if you think about Wi-Fi's evolution, it wasn't that long ago you went into Starbucks, you bought the coffee, and you paid for your Wi-Fi.