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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

Although we do have a sales force that's out actively looking for end users, but then when they find them, they bring them back through one of our channel partners.

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

Typically, a telco, it's buy, build, or partner.

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

It's the same with the equipment.

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

They could easily go out and build a Wi-Fi access point.

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

They don't because there's somebody like Cisco or Ruckus or Xeris that have spent millions in developing the best.

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

That's the point that we're at.

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

I think also with telcos, once you've got one- You mean the best access point?

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

So they could build their own access points.

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

It's not difficult.

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

Here's a parts list.

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

Mr. China company, go and build me 1,000 of these.

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

You don't do that because there's a lot of proprietary IP that Cisco or Ruckus or other have built around what that access point does.

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

And it's the same with our platform.

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

To actually build it for a single telco,

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

Not only would it take years, it would be a huge investment.

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

So, you know, it's more sensible in that scenario to partner.

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

And the fact that we have, you know, we've got half of the biggest service providers in the world, telcos, all basing their go to market around our platform.

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

So they're typically building a managed service.

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

So they'll build, you know, here's the equipment, here's the connectivity, here's the service desk, and here's this really clever layer that sits over it all and brings you the real value, the business value.

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

And they'll build that into a product and give it a name, and they'll take that out to their business customers and say, hey, Mr. Customer, here's a complete managed solution for your Wi-Fi, and it delivers all of these benefits.