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Patrick Bosworth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

In, in I think 98 countries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Wait, hold on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Well, so that will be contracted, and some of that will be lagging behind integrations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And so we actually don't count those as confirmed bookings until the integrations are done, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

So we have this weird concept.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

So another idiosyncrasy of our business is that we have this lag.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

of a gross booking, which is then broken up into confirmed bookings and deferred bookings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

The deferred bookings can sometimes hang out there for as much as a year while we work on integrations into their custom in-house systems or new vendors that we haven't worked with before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And so our current run rate is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

I don't usually share the exact numbers, but we're a fraction of the number that you just claimed, the back of the envelope that you did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

But we will be there next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Got it, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

So there's this constant lag where we're basically moving from deferred to confirmed this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And then that's what we claim to investors and our board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And internally, that's what we talk about is our confirmed bookings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

But then on a gross bookings basis, that's the number more that I was quoting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We have a larger services organization than most because there's a pretty significant change management initiative that a hotel needs to go through in order to implement our software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We put that above the line as a car.