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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

and then it moved to you know we've got wi-fi they don't so drink our coffee to well if you haven't got wi-fi i'm not drinking the coffee and you had the telecoms companies that moved in to provide that here's a sticker in the window that says you have wi-fi

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

but there's no other benefit from it.

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

And then what we've done is taken it on its next evolution, which is your Wi-Fi, it's your brand, it's your data.

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

And by the way, we can derive a huge amount of analytics just by putting Wi-Fi in a venue and that's yours, you own that space.

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

So we're competing, I guess, with the traditional, the Wi-Fi hotspot 1.0 to get people to understand there's a lot more that you can do with it.

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

And what's your revenue model?

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

How do you make money?

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

So we charge on a โ€“ it's a SaaS-based business, so it's all in the cloud.

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

We charge annual based on the number of Wi-Fi access points that you have.

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

So that might be one per venue.

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

If it was a single venue, it's about $13 a month.

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

So it's not a huge amount of money.

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

And if that โ€“ when you scale up and you've โ€“ we do huge chains and like โ€“

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

stadiums and airports and those you know so that obviously a price per access point comes down quite a lot if you you're talking about thousands of them so like would laguardia airport be one access point so okay there's multiple how many access points are in laguardia

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

So I would imagine in there, we don't do that one, but I would imagine probably about 200.

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

Oh, wow.

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

That's venues, and that ranges from a coffee shop, so like your Outback Steakhouse is all run purple, through to, you know, Indiana Pacers or the whole of Navy Pier, you know, places that are much bigger in scale.

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

In fact, we cover entire cities, and we've probably got about 40 cities now live.

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

We would consider that one.

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

Not quite, but because we obviously discount people.