Gabriel Ottino

1 appearance on the record.

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Gabriele Ottino served as Managing Director and CEO of scheduling platform Doodle from 2016 to 2019, leading its transformation to an enterprise SaaS model after serving as Head of Digital Strategy at Tamedia. In November 2020, he took over as CEO of CodeCheck, a Swiss-German product-rating app.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 7 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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What the tape says about how Gabriel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ottino: Doodle receives 200 million visiting users annually
“We've grown to be yeah, two hundred million users in a year that are visiting Doodle right now.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 3:51 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle aims to flip revenue to 90% SaaS subscriptions
“We are all totally convinced that we can flip this over to a 90 to 10 business where 90% is subscription and actually keep the advertising growing.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 11:52 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Supported
Ottino: Doodle receives 200 million visiting users annually
“We've grown to be yeah, two hundred million users in a year that are visiting Doodle right now.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 3:51 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Supported
Ottino: Doodle acquired Israeli smart scheduling bot Meekan
“So we bought two years ago, an Israeli startup that does that does a smart scheduling bot in Slack called Mekon”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 5:59 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle's monthly revenue is roughly 85% advertising and 15% SaaS
“It's about it's about 85, 15 still.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 8:32 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Some companies have thousands of Doodle premium seats
“There is companies who have thousands of Doodle seats, so thousands of users can actually use the premium Doodle.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 9:56 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle SaaS customers pay $30 to $40 per year on average
“On average, they're paying about 30 to 40 bucks because we have the big accounts are, have quite a digressive price model.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 10:20 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle has between 25,000 and 30,000 paying SaaS customers
“We have about Between 25 and 30,000 customers.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 11:29 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle will reach $1.5M SaaS ARR by year-end
“So we're going to get to about to about 1.5 million ARR by the end of the year.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 12:49 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Disclosure
Ottino: Doodle targets an $8 to $10 CAC per free trial
“I think, I mean, we need to take it, we need to take it down to about eight to 10 dollars for a free trial at the most.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 15:34 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ottino: Doodle converts 15% to 20% of free trials to paid
“It's about at the moment we are at about 15 to 20% converted to paid.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 16:04 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS
Disclosure
Ottino: Doodle charges $69 per year for business subscriptions
“For the business it's 69 dollars for a year.”
Gabriel Ottino Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 9:29 1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1360 How He's Shifting Doodle Meeting Tool 200m MAU's to SaaS Apr 15, 2019 12m
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