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Hello, everyone, my guest today is John Ziegler.

He is the CEO of a company called Park Mobile at ParkMobilglobal.com.

He's a seasoned executive with consistent track record of driving growth and innovation and software

and technology-enabled service businesses. John, are you ready to take us to the top?

I am, Nathan. Good. Tell us what ParkMobile does and what's your revenue model. How do you make money?

Sure. So Park Mobile is

driving the next stage of auto-related mobility. We do it by enabling convenience for drivers

and what's historically been a very inconvenient and uncertain experience, which is parking.

Right now we primarily enable folks to find and reserve and pay for parking and other auto-related mobility services

like charging stations through a mobile app or web.

Our revenue model is we have a small convenience fee.

So every time somebody pays for parking on street or off street using their mobile phone versus going and printing out a ticket

or putting coins in a meter, we make a small convenience fee off of that.

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