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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

Our US office is in Austin.

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

I'm in Austin right now.

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

That's great.

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

Well, there you go.

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

Yes, you would because you need the connectivity, but they will often, and it's probably one of them things that people don't realize the full value of it in a conference at the moment.

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

So you could probably say, look, I'll give you 5K to sponsor the Wi-Fi, overlay our solution on it and get tens of thousands of leads instead of a couple of hundred.

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

It varies.

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

You can get a TP link for maybe $50, $60 in a cafe-type environment.

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

In an enterprise, then your Cisco access points are probably about $1,000 each.

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

Number one, what's your favorite business book?

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

I read that many.

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

I would probably say Who Moved My Cheese?

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

It's a simple one, and I do it for a competition with the staff here.

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

And I think the messages are very simple.

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

The only constant is change.

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

Probably not.

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

Again, I read voraciously, you know, blogs, books, whatever I can.

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

One person I've always been very fond of is Jack Welch, although obviously not serving now.

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

I've read everything he's written and any blog posts I can get my hands on.

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

So he's a bit of a favorite, you might say.