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Nick Weaver

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

You can turn on parental controls to keep your kids safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

There's a ton of stuff that we unlock by using our mobile application.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Well, you know, the internet service providers are continuing to try to improve their in-home connectivity experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

You know, the tack that we've taken is building a product like this is incredibly complex.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Like the amount of software required to deliver a perfect internet experience in today's world with dozens of devices, people streaming video, streaming audio, just the complexity is like one or two orders of magnitude greater than it was even just five years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

So

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Frankly, we've been partnering with a lot of great internet providers, and they've been putting our product into their customers' homes to have a really great experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Yeah, so we sell our devices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

You buy an Eero system from Eero.com, from Best Buy, from Amazon, through one of our ISP partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

And then we also have a service that a number of our customers subscribe to called Era Plus, which is basically a digital security system for your home.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

You know, a lot of people have like an ADT system to protect the physical home, but you need something similar to protect your digital home.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

We do things like parental controls, content filtering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

We run a, you know, a malware prevention service, antivirus services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Um, and, and, and basically make sure that every device at your, in your home is safe in addition to your, your own network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Uh, a lot more than you'd think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

We haven't publicly commented on any numbers, but it's a significant number of our user base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

Honestly, it's something new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

So...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

There aren't really benchmarks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1145 How Eero is Locking Down Distribution Channel for "Home Automation Wars" With $100m

This is an entirely new way of delivering these types of products.