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James Booth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

It was back of a cigarette packet type thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

I'd put it in a drawer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And I really wasn't looking to do anything quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

I'd been working with a couple of businesses as an advisor, as helping one of them raise some money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And I'd started to do a little bit of angel funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And then the opportunity came along and I thought, you know what, I'm going to get that business plan out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

We were called Rockerbox back then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

We rebranded to Scooter in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And for me, I'd started to see in the market that there was a shifting dynamic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

The online publishers were losing audiences to Facebook and other social media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Brands were trying to work out how to communicate with inside social media, social channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And I felt that the market needed to move to a phase where content would become an interesting device for marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And that's what my business plan had been about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And it felt by the end of 2007, it felt like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

it was the right time to start to talk about content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

And so I created Rockerbox.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

I launched Rockerbox and brought in a co-founder who had a background in television.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

This is Tori.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

Yes, Tori, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

So her world was telly.