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Soininen: Playven generates only $2,000 a month in revenue

Topias Soininen · #44 Is This Sports App the Next OpenTable? · Mar 3, 2025 · at 4:50

Topias Soininen, founder of tennis booking platform Playven, discloses current monthly revenue to investors on The Pitch.

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“Revenue we're making about 2000 bucks a month right now.”

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