Playven

17 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 6 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2025 by Topias Soininen · said 30 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Playven has processed almost 200,000 bookings across 180 clubs
“We've already processed over two, almost 200,000 bookings. We, ah, at 180 tennis clubs.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:33 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Soininen: Playven generates only $2,000 a month in revenue
“Revenue we're making about 2000 bucks a month right now.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 4:50 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Diamond: Playven cannot successfully do both SaaS and a marketplace
“You're doing two things, and I don't think you can do both.”
Howie Diamond Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:02 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Manus: Playven's revenue does not justify an $8M valuation
“No, you shouldn't have because your revenue and this does not, ah, represent an eight million dollar valuation.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:53 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Manus: Topias Soininen lacks capacity to build a cross-sport platform
“But also, I don't think he has the capacity to build out a platform for all sports across, right, all venues.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:20 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Opinion
Soininen: Sports court booking can reach venture scale like OpenTable
“I completely disagree with that. A great example of this is, is open table. They started off as a booking system and then they become this billionaire billion dollar platform for a marketplace for finding a restaurant. So I completely disagree with that.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:31 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Playven spent zero dollars on user acquisition through May
“So up until May of this year, we haven't spent any money on user acquisition.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:21 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Hyatt: Playven's 10% take rate is probably not enough to scale
“The reason it's very very expensive, is that 10% gets eaten very quickly on customer acquisition cost, your marketing costs, you're getting in the players. So the 10% isn't probably enough to scale. You have to go through a lot of cash.”
Michael Hyatt Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:08 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
What-if
Manus would invest in Playven at a $4M to $4.5M valuation
“If this was at four million, I would definitely come into this, or 4.5.”
Jillian Manus Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 20:14 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Phil Nadel passes on Playven, citing founder's lack of urgency
“There's a lack of urgency that I'm not, as an investor, comfortable with, so I'm going to pass.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 13:26 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Soininen expects to raise at a valuation above $4M in the fall
“I think you know, we, I believe we can raise money at a bigger valuation than four at this point. We just, you know, need to clarify that focus a little bit and that's what we're doing. So I think, you know, once we show that we'll be able to raise at a bigger…”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 23:19 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bullish
What-if
Soininen: Playven could have raised its bridge round at $8M
“We could have, ah, gone to them at eight and we probably should have, ah, we like.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:48 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Soininen: Playven is a full club management system unlike ClassPass
“We're a full-on club management system for tennis and sports clubs, where you manage space bookings, lessons in clinics, coaches so it's a completely different product on the backend side compared to ClassPass.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 14:07 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Hyatt: Playven has to be a marketplace to work
“It has to be a marketplace for this to work.”
Michael Hyatt Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 15:25 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025
Disclosure
Playven raised a $450K bridge round at a $4M valuation
“The latest we raised is like a 450,000 bridging round at a four million dollar valuation.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 12:05 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nadel: Playven only has 24 paying clubs after years of operating
“He's been doing this for a few years. He only has 24 clubs paying him.”
Phil Nadel Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 21:18 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Soininen: 14,000 US tennis clubs suffer from unused capacity
“At the same time, there's 14,000 tennis clubs in the U.S. That have a lot of unused capacity.”
Topias Soininen Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:15 #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable?
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