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Paul Powers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

Everything was just a 2D technology like point cloud or whatever, trying to understand 3D.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

So we actually created something that would identify IP theft.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

And then we brought it to market 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

We showed it to a bunch of companies and they came back saying, well, that's great and all, but my God, we could use this in engineering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

We could use this in just seeing if we can manufacture something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

That's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

So there are quite a few licenses out there being used.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

And the reason it's hard for me to put an exact number on is because we have some institutional agreements with like FISNA, the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

Space and Rocket Center, NASA Space Camp.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

And in the latter case, they have 300,000 people a year coming through who have access to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

So I don't know how many people are actually utilizing it at any given time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

In the case of Purdue, they have 1,400 people who can use it at any given time, too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

So it's hard to say how many are actually using it at any one time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

I could look it up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

That's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

So I would say right now we're probably talking around, if you add between the non-governmental and the governmental and the testers versus the actual customers, we're only around 50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

We ruled this out around- Why do you say only, by the way?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

Well, I say only because we started selling it about a month or two ago actively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA

We didn't have a Salesforce two months ago.