David Leeds

1 appearance on the record.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 6 assertions · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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.

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Assertion Supported
Leeds: Blackhawk has acquired 7 to 9 rewards companies in recent years
“The largest kind of acquirer in our space historically has been Blackhawk, which is a publicly traded company, and they've you know, acquired, I think, seven or eight or nine companies, you know, in and around the space in the last four or five years.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 17:55 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

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Disclosure
Leeds: Tango Card Averages $1,000 Monthly Net Revenue Per Active Customer
“About a thousand of our customers, so we have 2000 customers, About a thousand of those transact with us every month. We generate about a thousand dollars a month in actual net revenue from those customers and our cost to acquire each and our cost to, and our …”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 15:19 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Leeds: Multiple rewards companies will reach IPO scale in 5-6 years
“Multiple companies should become large enough to go public, but the timeframe for that is, you know, another five to six years.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 17:25 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Disclosure
Leeds: Tango Card Averages Just Over 6% Margin on Sent Rewards
“There's a huge range based on the various folks we work with, but the average ends up being a little bit north of six percent.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 4:00 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Partly supported
Leeds: Overall Gift Card Industry Breakage Averages Roughly 4% to 5%
“I think, you know, the, if you kind of net it all out, there are, you know, probably four or five percent of the value of a gift card, you know, ultimately does not get used.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 4:24 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Disclosure
Tango Card has raised $9.4M in equity capital
“No, so we've raised 9.4 million dollars of equity capital. The last the vast majority of that, about seven million dollars came in 2013 and 2014 from Floodgate, which is a Bay Area based venture firm and a firm called Firefly now used to be Allegro Venture Par…”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 7:42 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Disclosure
Tango Card secured a $10M venture debt facility from WTI
“And then actually in June of this year, we closed on a ten million dollar venture debt facility with a firm called WTI in Portola Valley.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 8:00 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Disclosure
Leeds: Tango Card's $10M Venture Debt Carries Just Over 8% Interest
“It's slightly north of eight percent. Yes. And then we basically, you know, pay that back over the course of about 36 months, both principal and interest.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 9:09 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leeds: 5% of Tango Card Revenue Is International, vs Half Addressable Market
“About five percent of our revenue is outside of the US today, but about half of the hundred and fifty billion dollar opportunity that we're looking at is outside of the US.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 11:09 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Leeds: Tango Card to Hit Over $10M Revenue Growing 80% Annually
“And we'll do a little bit over 10 this year. And if you look at the last four or five years, each year we're growing about 80%.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 11:54 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leeds: Tango Card Gross Transaction Value in Hundreds of Millions
“So the gross transaction value is in the hundreds of millions, but everything we talk about internally and externally is in that, that net revenue number.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 12:13 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leeds: Tango Card Has Sub-1% Monthly Logo Churn
“We're sub one percent churn monthly.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 14:09 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Disclosure
Leeds: Tango Card generates 70% of sales leads from inbound channels
“So we have a ten-person sales team that does a combination of inbound and outbound, but about 70% of our lead generation is through inbound leads.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 14:21 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Supported
Leeds: Blackhawk has acquired 7 to 9 rewards companies in recent years
“The largest kind of acquirer in our space historically has been Blackhawk, which is a publicly traded company, and they've you know, acquired, I think, seven or eight or nine companies, you know, in and around the space in the last four or five years.”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 17:55 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Leeds: Around 2M Companies Globally Use Rewards and Incentives
“So there are about two million companies globally that use rewards and incentives in their business”
David Leeds Jan 9, 2018 ▶ 1:40 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard Jan 9, 2018 12m
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