Particle customers will deploy millions of connected devices in 2018
Zach Supalla · EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla · Mar 6, 2017 · at 6:58
Zach Supalla, CEO of IoT platform Particle, discusses customer fleet sizes and future enterprise deployment volumes.
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“And we have customers who will be deploying millions in 2018.”
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