Wheeldon: Purple WiFi splits capital spend 50-50 between engineering and sales
Gavin Wheeldon · 749: He's Making $9.6m Off Those Horrible Airport WiFi Connections · Aug 12, 2017 · at 17:47
Gavin Wheeldon, founder and CEO of Purple WiFi, explains how the company allocates its $13 million in raised funding.
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“It's probably, it's not paid acquisition, certainly. It's probably about fifty-fifty between engineering and sales.”
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