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🗓️ 13 January 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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CEO and Co-founder of RoomChecking. I've been working with software engineering since the late 1990s, survived the dotcom burst and continued building great products like myDitto (CES award 2010) and Zpen (Macworld Award 2011). Enjoying working with hoteliers and the great RoomChecking team to help improve the work and results of hotel operations staff.
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0:00.0 | He founded Room Checker again back a few years ago, called 2014, took it to about 2016 to get a working product paying customers now, serving 240 hotels that pay on average $250 a month. |
0:09.6 | Some pay for two years all up front, less than 1% gross revenue and logo churn annually, doing about $45,000 per month today in sales a year ago in June 2017, doing just $10 per month in sales. |
0:20.5 | So healthy growth, |
0:21.3 | small numbers, but they're building their customer base with their team of 10 people based |
0:24.6 | between Paris and the U.S. This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they |
0:32.1 | started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
0:38.3 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines. |
0:47.3 | We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. |
0:51.3 | I had no money when I started the company. |
0:53.3 | It was a hundred sixty million dollars, which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size |
0:55.2 | of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads |
1:03.5 | in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business |
1:08.8 | show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
1:15.0 | Hello, everyone. |
1:15.5 | My guest today is Jonathan Wiseman. |
1:17.9 | He is the CEO and co-founder of Room Checking.com. |
1:21.1 | He's been working with software engineering since the late 1990, |
1:23.6 | survived the dot-com burst, and continued building great products like My, |
1:26.9 | Dido, and Z-Pen, which got a Macquarter Award in |
1:29.2 | 2011. He's enjoying working with |
1:31.1 | hotelers and the great room checking team to help |
1:33.2 | improve the work and results of hotel |
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