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Cantey predicts ParkEvergreen will eventually monopolize entire airport parking facilities

Ben Cantey · 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey · Apr 27, 2017 · at 15:01

Ben Cantey, CEO of ParkEvergreen, explains his company's airport parking exclusivity model to Nathan Latka.

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“Eventually we'll take over entire facilities, and so the only way to park will be to use Park Evergreen.”

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The claim, plainly

ParkEvergreen will eventually take over entire airport parking facilities, making ParkEvergreen the exclusive method for travelers to park at those locations.

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Assessment

In April 2017, Ben Cantey (then-CEO of Park Evergreen) predicted that ParkEvergreen would eventually take over entire facilities such that it would be the exclusive method for travelers to park at those locations. While the horizon date was assigned by default rather than by the speaker, Park Evergreen never secured exclusive operational or payment management over an entire airport parking facility. Instead, the company pivoted away from parking management and rebranded as Plot (focusing on IoT flow/wait-time monitoring) before becoming deadpooled, with Cantey moving on to lead other companies by early 2022. As the company has ceased operations in parking management, the prediction can no longer come true.

Park Evergreen pivoted away from parking management and rebranded to Plot, focusing on IoT sensors and facility flow monitoring rather than parking operations.
Startup database Tracxn lists Park Evergreen as deadpooled, and co-founder Ben Cantey moved on to become CEO of Rumby by early 2022.
Public municipal and airport contract records through 2026 show no instance of Park Evergreen securing exclusive operational or payment management of an entire airport parking facility.

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Disclosure

ParkEvergreen split equity equally among all five of its co-founders

“We actually did it flat across the board.”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 9:01 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Prediction Not checkable as stated

ParkEvergreen will scale from zero to $170K MRR by July 2017

“But we'll book our first revenue in June and we'll actually move from zero to about a 170,000 dollars in an MRR starting in July. And then keep scaling from there.”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 3:30 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Assertion Contradicted

Cantey: Top 20 U.S. airports all have parking expansion projects

“The modernization projects that I mentioned At the top 20 airports, they all have parking expansion projects, and these are based on a 15 airport study that was completed last year in partnership with the U.S. Government and, you know, some of these top airpor…”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 5:18 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Disclosure

ParkEvergreen pivoted because investors grew tired of mobile parking apps

“Investors particularly and why we really pivoted is that investors are kind of tired of the mobile app parking solution.”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 8:03 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Insight

Cantey: Travelers will not download an app when arriving at airports

“Nobody's gonna download this when they get to the airport. You're in a rush. You're trying to park.”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 16:11 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

Disclosure

Cantey: No ParkEvergreen co-founders take pay or expense reimbursement

“So it's a, it's such a balanced team and nobody's asked for pay or reimbursement. Everybody's in it to win it for as long as we're in it.”

Ben Cantey Apr 27, 2017 ▶ 9:39 642: ParkEvergreen $100/mo Per Airport Parking Space to Help You Park Faster with CEO Ben Cantey

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