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TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy generates $3 annual revenue per capita in its mature Raleigh market
“If you look at our Raleigh market, which is one of our biggest ones, it's our home market. We're getting you know, three dollars for every million people in our per capita. So, so, so that's kind of the ceiling that I'm aware of right now that we can get to. W…”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 21:47 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Spiffy crosses $50M in annual recurring revenue
“We just crossed fifty million AR so that was exciting.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 13:50 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Spiffy software could become the 'Shopify for digital services'
“There's no reason your local plumber wouldn't use this software. It could be Shopify for digital services is where we're going.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 17:22 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Digitization of consumer services will outpace e-commerce's timeline
“And I think it's going to happen faster because it's taken a long time for e-commerce to get to where it is because we had to get digital payments and the phones and all this stuff, broadband, all this jazz, all that's in place now.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 2:55 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy hit a $20M pre-pandemic run rate, including $4M office park ARR
“So for us so from that, we were pre-pandemic, we were at about a twenty million run rate, and office parks were about four million of that, so we had grown it to four million ARR.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 8:09 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy spends $100K to $200K to launch a new city to profitability
“All in to get a city profitable for us is somewhere around a hundred to 200 K. And a lot of it depends on how big we start. So if we start with four trucks, that's gonna be like the one 50. We could start with two or three trucks and get it down to sub a hundr…”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 18:23 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy achieves 20% net margins, with a path to reach 25%
“Net. 20% now. And I think we can get to 25.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 23:34 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy's sales and marketing spend is under 20% of overall revenue
“Our sales and marketing as a percent of revenue has gone down and it's sub 20%. And I can see it getting to sub 10%.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 24:32 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: GoTo.com invented paid search, but Google made the money
“They invented paid search. Google made all the money, but go to kind of invented it.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 4:06 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Auction Rover received $50M-$100M acquisition offers with zero revenue
“50 to a hundred million and we had no revenue. So I was kind of like, you know, this would be remiss to say no and then have the bottom fall out from this thing and always say, wow, what, you know, what if we had sold this six month old company with no revenue…”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 6:00 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Wingo: Bought back Auction Rover assets for roughly $1M all in
“Yeah, it was around a million dollars all in.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 11:18 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Scott Wingo: Spiffy serves all major rental car companies
“We have all the large rental car companies are our customers, Enterprise Hertz, Avis Budget, Sixth, et cetera.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 3:03 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Wingo: ChannelAdvisor reached 1,000 employees at $100M SaaS revenue
“Channel advisor got to be a thousand people at a hundred million SAS.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 12:47 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
US consumer services are twice the size of consumer goods in GDP
“If you look at, I'm also a hobby economist and if you look at the GDP of the United States, consumer services are twice the size as consumer goods.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 2:39 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pre-COVID, Spiffy generated $1,000 monthly revenue per office park
“So prior to COVID office parks are the number one channel for consumers. And on average, we make a thousand dollars a month at an office park.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 6:32 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy does 1,000 daily vehicle services, primarily serving commercial fleets
“So every day we do a thousand services, I would say a 150 a day are consumers.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 8:54 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spiffy drives repeat revenue: 60% for consumers, 95% for commercial fleets
“Over 60% of our revenue each month is from existing customers on the consumer side. Like it's like 95% on the fleet side.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 12:12 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rental cars awaiting offsite oil changes lose $250 in potential revenue
“Look, those cars are sitting there for five days on average, losing 50 dollars a day in rental opportunity.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 14:24 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Spiffy operates 210 service trucks across the US
“We have 210 trucks across the United States.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 15:29 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sun sold $3M in servers on eBay during Beanie Baby era
“Sun Microsystems was our biggest seller. So we said, wow, that's amazing. And they had sold like three million dollars worth of servers on eBay. This is when eBay was largely beanie babies.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 4:27 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Wingo: Auction Rover sold for $20M to $50M before using initial angel capital
“Yeah, so, so angel to ourselves got three, and before we could really get into the three, sold it for, you know, depending on the time and how you calculate it, about 20 to fifty million bucks.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 9:06 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Auction Rover competitor rejected $200M acquisition offer and became worthless
“It was crazy. You know, we had a competitor that got an offer of two hundred million and turned it down and then, you know, it became a zero.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 9:24 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
ChannelAdvisor spent $60M on physical server infrastructure before its IPO
“So we raised ninety million bucks all in before the IPO and you know, a good chunk of that price. 60 went into servers and building out a server farm. The other 30 went into, in these software as a service models, as you know, you have to really ramp up the s…”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 14:24 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Wingo: ChannelAdvisor Priced at $14, Popped to $17 with $500M Cap
“So I know we priced at like 14 and then went to 17. So, you know, I would say five hundred million.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 15:12 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: 70% of Spiffy's revenue is recurring from at-work office parks
“About 70% of our revenue is this at work consumer and the bulk of it's recurring. It's recurring at the office park level and not necessarily the consumer level.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 20:37 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Spiffy crossed $2M run rate with over 100% growth
“So we just crossed the two million dollar run rate and we're growing you know, north of a hundred percent.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 21:12 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Spiffy operates in 17 geographic markets, up from 5 in 2017
“And also, since you and I last talked, we're now in 17 markets, and I think when we talked, we were probably in five.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 7:02 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
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