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Griff Parry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And it's when they get overwhelmed that we come in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

So we are at that, you know, our typical customer is $50 million an hour and above.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And the stage of our business is that we had tens of customers like that and growing fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

Very well put.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

We actually gave people the ability to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

So what Gamesbox was, I would call it cloud infrastructure, but given where you've come at this from, think about it as a back end of the box.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

So video games were changing quite rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

So previously, except for, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

some relative niches.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

Most games were something that you could put on a shiny disc or its digital equivalent and sell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And that was it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

People kept score by the number of units they sold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And then video games went through a transition where typically video games would have a whole bunch of online features and they would be living products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And the way people kept score changed from the number of units you sold to the number of active players that you have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

A lot of this was the growth of mobile as a platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

Anyway, so there was a big appetite coming from the video games industry to build backend platforms so they could do things like leaderboards or achievement systems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And typically, video games companies didn't have those skills in-house because it was new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

And so that's what GameSparks was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing

It was a highly flexible, highly configurable backend as a service.