Alex Israel
Co-founder & CEO, Metropolis Technologies. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alex Israel is the co-founder and CEO of Metropolis Technologies, an applied AI and computer vision platform for parking and physical infrastructure. Previously, he co-founded the parking data platform ParkMe, which was acquired by INRIX in 2015.
1shows
1appearances
16statements
6resolved
4supported
0contradicted
67%fully supported
Everything Alex Israel said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Israel: Selling software to parking operators fails due to cost-plus staffing incentives
“One, these organizations as a whole are staffing agencies. They are primarily driven by the revenue and cost plus model they can associate with their staff, with their human capital. So they were not going to be interested in deploying technology, and they wer…”
Alex Israel predicts VC and PE will buy legacy operators for AI
“You're going to start seeing this across the venture capital and private equity ecosystem, whereby you're taking technology companies, best in class technology, best in class, artificial intelligence, and you're pairing it with best in class operations or rela…”
Alex Israel: Metropolis added UX friction because the app was too seamless
“It was the moment when I realized the technology that we were deploying was so seamless, was so frictionless at first that the user didn't realize they were using the product. That we had to insert more friction into the funnel.”
Israel: Metropolis measures success by time spent not using the product
“Think about how unique it is that as a product, we don't measure ourselves by how much time you spend using our product. We measure ourselves by how much time you spend not using our product. We want you to sign up one time and never use Metropolis again in th…”
Israel: Real estate owners are the last to test new software products
“Within the real estate industry, it was a very complicated go to market in the context that real estate owners are the last to test new products. They're the last to be the first hamster on the wheel. They don't really want to experiment with picks and shovels…”
Israel: Metropolis acquired Premier Parking generating around $10M in EBITDA
“We bought a parking operator based out of Nashville, Tennessee, probably the 11th largest parking operator in the United States. Company was doing around ten million dollars of EBITDA.”
Alex Israel: 'Growth buyouts' bridging tech risk and M&A will emerge
“I think you're going to see a new emergence around this GBO, this idea of a growth buyout, that you can merge these two risk return profiles into something very compelling and very unique.”
Israel: Metropolis increased Premier Parking's gross profit by 2.1x post-acquisition
“And we quickly found that we had 2.1 X the gross profit over that period of time.”
Israel: Metropolis Has 20M Users, Adding Over 1M Monthly
“As we were scaling to at this .20000000 Americans on platform, as we scale to every one to two seconds, someone signs up on our platform, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 65 to 80,000 new members every single day. At this point, we're scaling to north of one…”
Israel: The US parking industry is a $130 billion market
“The parking in the United States, a hundred and thirty billion dollar industry, and we had only captured or taken on a small part.”
Israel: Metropolis launched by directly leasing two Venice parking locations
“And the easiest way to go about doing that was to actually lease locations. So instead of asking an asset owner to take risk, we took the risk and we leased locations. We started with a location in two locations in Venice that we leased from real estate owners…”
Israel: Metropolis has reached 4,600 managed or leased locations
“Now we're at M 4600 and it's untenable.”
Israel: 90% of the parking operator industry uses management contracts
“90% of the industry is just management contracts. So it's all asset-like, but you're right. They had about 400 locations that they managed and allowed us to buy them and then install our technology across their base.”
Israel: ParkMe licensed real-time parking data to Google, Waze, and major automakers
“We invented a technology called real-time parking that told consumers all over the world where parking was available and licensed that data into most of the largest navigation companies globally from Waze to Google to Tele Atlas and to Ford and Porsche and BMW…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Metropolis Technologies | 1 | 16 | 67% 4/6 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → |