Alon Schwartz
Co-Founder and COO, Trellis. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alon Schwartz is a serial technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and COO of Trellis. He previously founded the parental screen-time management app unGlue and co-founded Docstoc, which was acquired by Intuit.
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Schwartz: Apple pulled Unglue from the App Store before launching Screen Time
“We actually were the first app that got pulled.”
Schwartz predicts screen-time management market will consolidate to one or two players
“Yeah, I think it will be probably one or two players. That's why I see it. And the one or two players will be the ones that the kids will like, or will hate the least. If not, you don't want to look at it. That's how it will play out.”
Schwartz: unGlue will solve device addiction and investors will regret passing
“And actually I think it's fortunate for the world because we will solve this problem for the next generation.
and this will be something that everyone will look back and like, yeah, that was one of the things we should have invested in, and that's fine, rig…”
Schwartz: Apple must collaborate with screen-time startups like unGlue
“Do I believe that Apple will do something about this? Absolutely, and I think that Apple is, you know, not an expert in this space, and they will have to do something in collaboration with other companies that are experts in this space like Unglue.”
Schwartz: Apple is an unfair competitor that pulls no punches
“I mean, you're, you truly fighting an unfair game, an unfair competitor that is just pulling no punches.”
Schwartz: Unglue forced Apple's hand to build native Screen Time
“I mean, we forced Apple's hand. We introduced this concept To the world.”
Schwartz: A hardware loophole got Unglue reinstated in the App Store
“In, in Unglu case, we had that kind of one capability that no one else had, which is We had a hardware component, and they could, their terms of service did not include that, and that allows me to bring the app back to the app store.”
Schwartz: unGlue is raising $3 million to expand business
“I'm here to raise three million dollars to continue to grow the business, find investors and partners to join us in this important mission that we're on.”
Schwartz: unGlue converts 12% to 15% of active users into paid subscribers
“After 14 days, you can subscribe for 10 dollars a month, or 84 dollars a year. What we see is that, on average, 12 to 15% of our users subscribe, or of our active users subscribe.”
Schwartz: unGlue has about 13,000 active users and 800 paying subscribers
“So active users, we have about 13,000 active users right now. So we have about 800 paying subscribers.”
Schwartz: unGlue experiences approximately 7.5% month-over-month subscriber churn
“If you're looking at total subscribers, we're seeing about seven and a half percent drop month over month.”
Schwartz: Unglue grew 10% week-over-week in its slowest early-2018 periods
“I mean, we grew 10% week over week at the Slowest times.”
Schwartz: Unglue had under two months runway when Screen Time launched
“I think at that point it was, I think like two months, maybe, maybe less.”
Schwartz: Robert Herjavec offered to invest in Unglue on Shark Tank
“So, I actually got a shark to invest, to want to invest.”
Schwartz: Unglue almost sold to a massive global router company
“Someone was definitely interested. And it was one of the biggest router companies in the world.”
Schwartz: Collapsed acquisition would have more than doubled investor money
“They would have more than double. Yeah.”
Schwartz: Kids spend roughly six and a half hours daily on devices
“They're spending about six and a half hours per day on their many devices, and it's not getting any better.”
Schwartz: unGlue blocks entertainment apps but leaves utility tools open
“So if they spend it, you know, on anything from Snapchat, Instagram, Flash Royale, whatever the thing, you know, YouTube, Netflix, everything, we count that time. When that time ends, they can still, again, do homework, do everything, listen to music on Spotif…”
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Manus: unGlue's product can be replicated quickly by competitors
“See he, it took him, ah, two years to build this, but the fact is, is that he has a small team, and I think this can be replicated pretty fast.”
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