Internet of Things

also referred to as: iot

7 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2017 by Zach Supalla · across every show →

Everything said about Internet of Things, oldest first

Mar 6, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Particle provides full-stack IoT hardware, connectivity, and cloud infrastructure
“What that means is we give them a cloud platform. Those devices can connect to, we give them the physical hardware that'll actually go into the device. So like a wifi module or a cellular modem. We get, if it's cellular, we give them SIM cards and data plans, …”
Zach Supalla Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 4:09 EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla
Aug 7, 2019 positive
Insight
Latka: Pairing IoT hardware with SaaS generates far higher customer retention
“One of the patterns I see whenever I see kind of an IoT device paired with a SaaS product on the back end is retention tends to be way higher because there's actually a physical piece of hardware installed.”
Nathan Latka Aug 7, 2019 ▶ 9:35 1474 Advantages of IoT+SaaS with $2.5m Revenue CEO of Senorberg
Oct 4, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Zafar: Spent three years researching IoT use cases before choosing grain
“It took me three years to find out the right use case in IOT, Internet of Things. And grain seemed to be the right place with A very easy, competitive landscape.”
Naeem Zafar Oct 4, 2019 ▶ 1:54 1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Flume spent $2M in capital before generating its first revenue
“Believe it was about two million before we got our first dollar revenue, which is pretty low actually for an IOT company.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 3:20 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Jan 24, 2022 bullish
Insight
Marinelli: Predicting industrial machine breakdowns requires combining software and hardware
“The only way really to do that is by combining software and hardware and just basically providing the best in class IOT that we can.”
Igor Marinelli Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 3:32 LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
Jan 24, 2022 positive
Insight
Marinelli: Installation Friction Prevents IoT From Becoming a Commodity
“IoT isn't that commodity that we think it is, especially because of installation time, setup time, and so on. So if you really nail down the hardware part, you can go to go to market more easily, and you can just have like more successful customers that are pa…”
Igor Marinelli Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 7:40 LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
Jun 11, 2026 bullish
Insight
Latka: Combining IoT and SaaS creates highly defensible AI data moats
“You're seeing the world of AI. Anyone that has a data moat really wins. And one way to build an impressive data moat is to have a SAS plus business model. We have IOT plus SAS.”
Nathan Latka Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 1:37 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.