Greg Tanaka

Founder & CEO, Percolata · 1 appearance on the record.

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Greg Tanaka is the founder and CEO of Percolata, an AI-powered retail workforce analytics platform, and the founder of algorithmic trading startup Pika Group. He has also served as a Palo Alto City Councilmember since 2017 and run for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 16th Congressional District.

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Insight

Tanaka: Top retail salespeople deliver nearly 10x the shopper yield of average staff

“So first of all, we look at a metric called shopper yield. So the top salespeople will have a shopper yield metric of almost 10 X what the average salesperson will do.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 3:05 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

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Tanaka: Percolata delivers retail clients $20 to $40 extra revenue per dollar spent

“So essentially for every dollar that they pay us, they get about 20 to 30 dollars back, sometimes even 40 dollars back in terms of return on investment. So they get massive return in terms of every dollar they pay us, they get about 20 to 40 dollars in terms o…”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 10:23 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

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Tanaka: Percolata scheduling generates a 10% to 30% revenue boost for stores

“So for the store that we schedule and we're able to show generally between 10 to 30% boost in revenue, depending on what the, what's going on.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 10:53 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

Disclosure

Tanaka: Percolata charges $0.85 per scheduled hour

“The way we make money is we charge per scheduled hour. So for every hour that we schedule, we get 85 cents per hour.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 4:47 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

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Tanaka: Percolata has over 18.4 million hours contracted annually

“So we have under contract over 18.4 million hours annually.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 8:37 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

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Tanaka predicts Percolata will pass $10M revenue in 2018

“It's very good chance.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 9:56 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

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Tanaka: Percolata has 40 total brand logos worldwide

“We have 40 logos total worldwide.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 13:09 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

Disclosure

Ben Horowitz and Andreessen Horowitz are investors in Percolata

“It's a book written by one of our investors from Jason Horitz Ben Horitz”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 13:29 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

Disclosure

Tanaka: Percolata has raised $9.5M in total funding

“We raised 9.5 million.”

Greg Tanaka May 29, 2018 ▶ 6:19 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booke	May 29, 2018	9m

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