4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Tom is founder and CEO of IDRONECT. He is 44 years old, entrepreneur and active airline pilot and has a Master in Aviation Science. With IDRONECT he wants to unlock the huge potential the drone industry has by making it easy to fly safe, legal and fun.
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0:00.0 | Founded Idrnect, which is management software for drone operators to make sure they're compliant. |
0:04.2 | Founded it back in 2015. |
0:06.4 | They have 1,500 free users, 300 customers paying $24 bucks a month. |
0:10.2 | So $7,200 per month right now in revenue. |
0:12.5 | That's up from $2,400 a month just a year ago. |
0:14.8 | So healthy growth. |
0:15.8 | They're burning about $3K per month right now as they look to scale only raised about 50 grand i've got a team of four people based in belgium 5% logo turn annually for about 95% net revenue retention because there's no |
0:25.9 | expansion spending 40 bucks to get a new 24-month customer so two-month payback period as they |
0:30.4 | look to expand internationally hello everybody my guest today is tom verbrugan he is the founder |
0:36.9 | and CEO of idrencht he's 44 years old |
0:39.4 | he's obviously an entrepreneur and active airline pilot and has a master's in aviation science |
0:43.4 | with his company idurnecht he wants to unlock the huge potential the drone industry has by making it easy |
0:48.1 | to fly safe legal and in a fun way tom are you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, thank you for having me, |
0:56.0 | Nathan. You bet. Okay, so drone management software, what does this look like and is the revenue |
1:01.4 | model of Pure Play SaaS company? Well, it looks like a digital tool to help people enable the |
1:10.7 | enormous potential that drones have. |
1:13.6 | So a lot of people see a lot of opportunities in drones, |
1:18.6 | but they are faced with a lot of challenges, |
1:21.6 | legal, how to fly safe, how to be legal, where to fly, et cetera. |
1:28.6 | And we give them a digital tool that makes it intuitive to follow those rules and regulations. |
1:36.2 | So in a way, it's really a SaaS platform, software-as-a-service platform, |
1:41.6 | where the base is given for free and then there are premium features that |
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