Adam Toll

Angel Investor and Advisor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Toll is an entrepreneur and investor best known for co-founding and leading Haste, a network software company developed to reduce lag for online gamers. Prior to Haste, he was co-founder and COO/President of BigChampagne, an entertainment media measurement company acquired by Live Nation in 2011.

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1 prediction · 6 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Toll: Haste transmits gaming data across multiple internet routes simultaneously

“When we route traffic, we use many of those routes, right? So think of it as like ways for the internet, except instead of having to pick one route that you're going to drive, we actually drive all of your data on all of those routes simultaneously. And then r…”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 7:06 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Interactive social games and experiences will suffer significant network lag

“What I'm suggesting is that the minute this thing goes social, right? The minute people start interacting over the internet in games or other social experiences, they're going to hit network lag, right? And it's, you know, to get under the hood, it's a combina…”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 4:01 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Supported

Toll: Haste transmits gaming data across multiple internet routes simultaneously

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 7:06 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Toll: Haste has thousands of paying subscribers

“We, but we are, we have, you know, thousands of people who are paying us.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 9:30 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Haste reached nearly 350,000 registered users during its beta

“Well, bear in mind that we have I was just getting the stats this morning, since we went into beta and open beta in January. We've got, we have almost 350,000 people who've signed up and who are using Haze. Now, to put that in context you know, on a weekly bas…”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 9:46 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Disclosure

Haste raises over $6M to solve gaming network latency

“Yes, we've raised capital. We've actually raised over six million dollars.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 13:08 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Toll: Haste monthly churn is between 4% and 5%

“It's around four, between four and five percent.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 15:59 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Toll: Haste peaked at $75,000 in monthly marketing spend

“We got up to about 75,000.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 16:41 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Haste generated up to 50,000 monthly signups during its beta peak

“Typical month was 35,000 our peak month during beta, and this is when we were giving it away, and was close to 50,000.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 17:00 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Disclosure

Toll: Haste co-locates server infrastructure at Chicago's Cermak data hub

“Three 60 CERMAC is the sort of beating heart of the internet in Chicago. And we're right in the same place where the game servers are, right? So we're all leasing space and bandwidth.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 5:47 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Disclosure

Toll: Haste charges $6.99 per month for its gaming network service

“So right now it's a monthly fee. You can subscribe on a monthly basis or have an annual subscription. Right now it's six 99 a month.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 8:31 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Disclosure

Toll personally invested $150,000 into Haste as pre-seed capital

“Personally, I put in 150,000.”

Adam Toll Jan 24, 2018 ▶ 14:30 914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool	Jan 24, 2018	12m

Adam Toll

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