Scott Wingo

3 appearances on the record.

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45statements → 27claims → 5claims resolved → 40%fully supported → 3.87/5average certainty → 1.27/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 7said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 20 not checkable as stated how the 27 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 25 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 16 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 27 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 20 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

What the tape says about how Scott 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
US consumer services are twice the size of consumer goods in GDP
“If you look at, I'm also a hobby economist and if you look at the GDP of the United States, consumer services are twice the size as consumer goods.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 2:39 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Wingo: ChannelAdvisor reached 1,000 employees at $100M SaaS revenue
“Channel advisor got to be a thousand people at a hundred million SAS.”
Scott Wingo Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 12:47 Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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Everything Scott Wingo said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Digitization of consumer services will outpace e-commerce's timeline
“And I think it's going to happen faster because it's taken a long time for e-commerce to get to where it is because we had to get digital payments and the phones and all this stuff, broadband, all this jazz, all that's in place now.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 2:55 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Disclosure
Spiffy employs service technicians directly, rejecting Uber's 1099 marketplace model
“Unlike Uber where it's a 10 99 marketplace our, we decided early on to take a page from Amazon's playbook. And these are our employees.”
Scott Wingo Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 4:17 GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: GoTo.com invented paid search, but Google made the money
“They invented paid search. Google made all the money, but go to kind of invented it.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 4:06 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wingo: Auction Rover received $50M-$100M acquisition offers with zero revenue
“50 to a hundred million and we had no revenue. So I was kind of like, you know, this would be remiss to say no and then have the bottom fall out from this thing and always say, wow, what, you know, what if we had sold this six month old company with no revenue…”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 6:00 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Wingo: Bought back Auction Rover assets for roughly $1M all in
“Yeah, it was around a million dollars all in.”
Scott Wingo Jun 21, 2017 ▶ 11:18 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle clean Jul 21, 2022 12m
GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next! Nov 11, 2020 17m
697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later Jun 21, 2017 14m
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