Spiffy

32 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 21, 2017 by Scott Wingo · said 58 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jun 21, 2017 neutral
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
Jun 21, 2017
Disclosure
Scott Wingo: Spiffy Employs Technicians and Owns Vans Instead of Using 1099 Contractors
“So unlike a lot of the on demand economy where they're just kind of a marketplace or they're working a network of 10 99 contractors. We actually own and operate the whole soup to nuts. So we employ the technicians, we own the assets, the vans that are utilized…”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 1:38 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
Jun 21, 2017 positive
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
Nov 11, 2020 neutral
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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!
Nov 11, 2020 bullish
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!
Nov 11, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Spiffy leases 95% of its vehicle fleet to shift CapEx to OpEx
“So we lease 95% of it. You can even, we put a lot of equipment in the trucks. We lease that as well. So, so it really is, converts it from a CapEx to an OpEx, which is really nice.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 15:46 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Nov 11, 2020 neutral
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!
Nov 11, 2020 bullish
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
Insight
Rental fleets deprioritize $40 oil changes to keep expensive mechanics on repairs
“They pay these ASE certified mechanics, 30 to 50 dollars an hour. And when you pay someone that much, their triage list is, you know you know, engine problems, brakes, batteries, anything else but oil change. So, so they really don't want them working on oil c…”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 13:57 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Nov 11, 2020 bullish
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!
Nov 11, 2020
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!
Nov 11, 2020
Disclosure
Spiffy has raised slightly over $30 million in total funding
“I, you know, fortunately, knock on wood, I've been fortunate enough to raise more, so I've raised a little north of thirty million.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 3:29 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy runs 500 field technicians with just 60 headquarters staff
“So we have about 60 people in headquarters. So in this model, we want to keep our headquarters as kind of light as possible because it's really overhead for the operations that go on and out in the field we have over you know, hopefully hope you're sitting dow…”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 12:28 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Scott Wingo: Spiffy is 85% B2B fleet and 15% consumer
“We're 85% B to B, which is fleet in my world of car care, and then 15% consumer.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 2:21 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy fleet revenue splits evenly across oil, washes, and other services
“Of that fleet business about a third is oil change, a third is wash, and a third is other, which includes tires, brakes, light repair, windshield, odor elimination.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 4:22 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy closed a $30M Series B in tranches in 2022
“We did a thirty million series B that we had some chunks in it, but the last chunk was ten million, and that was earlier this year.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 11:32 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy discounts oil changes from $100 for consumers to $40 for fleets
“So a consumer oil change is about a hundred dollars. And then with some of our fleet partners, you know, just the oil change, we can get into the 40, 50 dollar zone per car. You'll like this. Yeah. Per, per vehicle. But there'll be a commitment of volume there…”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 4:50 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Scott Wingo: Spiffy raises at 50% to 60% of SaaS valuation multiples
“We're SaaS-like but we should, you know, we don't earn SaaS multiples. So, so we've been getting, you know, kind of like around a little, around half to 60% of SaaS multiples, which I'm okay with because I've been in the other situation where, you know you hav…”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 18:32 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Wingo: Amazon DSP last-mile maintenance is a $200M opportunity
“The Amazon DSP opportunity alone is probably a two hundred million dollar opportunity for the last mile stuff.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 15:28 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022 bullish
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
Jul 21, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Wingo: Secondary share sales are not a major consideration at Spiffy
“I'm in a position, this is my fourth company where I don't really want to do secondary. I'm kind of doing the opposite. I'm investing into things. So secondary hasn't been a huge consideration for us.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 12:15 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Wingo: Spiffy has completed about four acquisitions
“We have, we've done about four acquisitions.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 9:25 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy operates roughly 280 service vans daily across the US
“We have about 280 vans zipping around the United States every day.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 6:09 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
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
Jul 21, 2022 positive
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
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy employs its mobile technicians as W-2 workers without guaranteed hours
“They are. They're W-II. So they, you know, the W-II worker is an hourly employee. They are an employee, but they don't all get 40 hours.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 13:14 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
Jul 21, 2022
Disclosure
Spiffy trucks average $800 daily revenue, peaking at $2,000 maximum
“Across our whole network, we're at 800. So we have cities that are getting there. But we're, you know, that, that is a theoretical you know, we, we've gotten there and you know, like every day we have five trucks that get there, but that's like, that's a stret…”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 7:57 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
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