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Hongwei Liu

Co-Founder and CEO, Mappedin. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Hongwei Liu co-founded Mappedin in 2011 out of the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator to digitize indoor spaces, venue wayfinding, and spatial data management. Under his leadership, the Waterloo-based company has expanded globally to map hundreds of millions of square feet across malls, transit hubs, and commercial buildings.

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Everything Hongwei Liu said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Buildings need unified map maintenance tools rather than custom consumer apps
“While every building might want a different app for some mapping use case, they're all going to want the same productivity tool for maintaining their own maps.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 14:43 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
TV pitch shows like Dragon's Den do not drive enterprise B2B sales
“What we didn't get from that was customers. Cause you know, if you're selling lawn chairs, dragon's end is awesome. People on their couch, buy lawn chairs off the TV. They're not buying indoor mapping software for their mall, right? Like that's not enterprise …”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 10:32 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most of the world's large shopping malls use Mappedin
“Today we have, you know, Definitely CF, but most of the malls big malls in the world are using us.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 17:23 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mappedin is used by approximately 10% of Fortune 500 headquarters
“Today we're working with, like, 10% of the Fortune 500 headquarters. Their office managers are using maps and tools to maintain.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 18:43 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mappedin is the largest indoor mapping startup in the world
“I, I'd say we're by far the biggest indoor mapping startup in the world in terms of customers, revenue, square footage, et cetera.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 26:12 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Mappedin won a US Homeland Security contract for firefighter indoor mapping
“We submitted this RFP for Homeland Security and we won. Canadian company won a US defense contract to build and to adapt our indoor mapping tools for that.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 29:11 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
New Jersey allocated $6.5M to map state schools after the Uvalde shooting
“August 30th, twenty-twenty twenty-twenty-two, the governor of New Jersey puts out a press release saying, I'm allocating six and a half million dollars of Funding to map all the schools in the state of New Jersey because Uvalde happened and maps of schools are…”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 21:37 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
ServiceNow partnered with Mappedin for return-to-work desk booking
“ServiceNow reached out to us and we became their go-to partner for return to work. So like powering desk booking and Table reservations.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 28:12 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
Liu financed Mappedin's first mall deployment using his personal savings
“Back then it had to be all included. So we charged them a monthly license, but we didn't charge them for the hardware. I financed it with my, again, my five-figure life, low five-figure life savings. And it was basically a deal where we'd make that back over t…”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 3:21 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mappedin generates approximately five sales leads per day
“Today when I look at Mafton, we get like five leads a day and I just look at it and I feel happy because I remember how much work each lead used to take.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 8:43 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show

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