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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1344 9000 Building Owners Use This To Track Temp, Seating, Usage, $200k in MRR, $6m Raised

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Deb Noller is the dynamic CEO and co-founder of Switch Automation, a smart building software company specializing in building performance optimization. With 20+ years of experience in real estate, technology and sustainability, she is passionate about helping enterprises leverage next-generation facilities management technology to execute more efficient business operations.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Today, my guest is Deb Noler. She's the dynamic CEO and co-founder of Switch

0:06.9

Automation, a smart building software company specializing in building performance optimization.

0:11.6

With 20 plus years of experience in real estate, technology, and sustainability, she's passionate

0:15.7

about helping enterprises leverage next generation facilities management technology to execute more efficient

0:21.8

business operations. Deb, are you ready to take us to the top?

0:25.3

Hi there. Dead Nola. How are you, Deb? Yep. I'm fantastic. Thanks. Good. Okay. Tell us about the

0:31.4

company. What do you guys do and what's your revenue model? How do you make money?

0:34.5

Sure. So we are in the world of transitioning buildings from

0:39.2

the old world of disconnected assets, disconnected data, disconnected systems into a whole new

0:45.3

digitized world. So it's about connected buildings, smarter buildings, because not all buildings

0:51.4

are smart, but we're aiming to make them smarter. So if you look at the way

0:55.2

real estate's being managed for the last 20 or 30 years, it's like 1980s out there. All the

1:01.2

information is in, it's locked up inside buildings that people are making decisions without access

1:07.0

to good quality data. And that's the problem that we're solving. And give me an example

1:12.8

of a company using you right now just so we can put a face to this problem. So we're working with

1:17.8

we work. So we work with any company that has a lot of buildings because they all have the same

1:22.7

problem. And it doesn't matter whether you're a commercial real estate owner or a property manager like

1:29.1

Pushman and Wakefield or a services company like an engineering services company or a tenant

1:35.9

or a retail portfolio. It actually doesn't really matter. If you've got lots of buildings,

1:40.5

you've got all different hardware and you've got lots of different service providers

1:45.1

and you've got lots of different systems and you have no single source of the truth.

1:49.6

Okay, so at WeWork, when you talk about data tied to those buildings, what kind of data?

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