Founder Interview
How Spiffy Hit $50M Revenue with 410 Fleet Customers and 280 Vans Nationwide (Interview with CEO Scot Wingo)
- Interview Date
- July 7, 2022
- Interviewee
- Scot WingoCEO
Company Metrics at Interview Time
Revenue (2022)
$50M ARR
Fleet Customers (2022)
410
Service Vans (2022)
280
Avg Contract Value (2022)
$120K
Sales Team (2022)
5 reps
Historical Snapshot
These numbers were reported by Scot Wingo during his interview with Nathan Latka in July 2022 and are a historical snapshot, not current figures. See Spiffy’s current numbers.

Key Takeaways
- 01Spiffy crossed $50M ARR as of July 2022
- 02410 fleet customers including Hertz, Avis Budget, Sixt, Enterprise, AutoZone, Verizon, and Wegmans
- 03280 leased service vans operating across the United States
- 04Average contract value per fleet customer is approximately $120K per year
- 0585% of revenue is B2B fleet business, 15% is consumer
- 06Average daily revenue per truck across the network is $800, with a theoretical maximum of $2,000
- 07Spiffy has a 5-person sales team despite $50M in revenue, relying on inbound demand
- 08The company completed a $30M Series B with the final $10M tranche announced earlier in 2022
- 09About 60 people work at headquarters with over 500 technicians in the field
- 10Spiffy has made approximately 4 acquisitions, including Pit Crew for geographic expansion into Tennessee
Company Metrics at Time of Interview
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue (2022) | $50M ARR | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Fleet Customers (2022) | 410 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Service Vans (leased) (2022) | 280 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Avg Contract Value (2022) | $120K | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Sales Reps (2022) | 5 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Headquarters Headcount (2022) | 60 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Field Technicians (2022) | 500+ | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| B2B Revenue Share (2022) | 85% | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Consumer Revenue Share (2022) | 15% | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Avg Daily Revenue per Truck (network average) (2022) | $800 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Avg Daily Revenue per Truck (theoretical max) (2022) | $2,000 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Consumer Oil Change Price (2022) | $100 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Fleet Oil Change Price (2022) | $40 to $50 per vehicle | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Series B Total Raised | $30M | Founder interview, July 2022 |
| Acquisitions Completed (2022) | 4 | Founder interview, July 2022 |
Growth Breakdown
Revenue
Spiffy crossed $50M ARR by July 2022, up from a smaller base when Scot last appeared on the show in August 2020. The fleet business, which is 85% of revenue, drives predictable recurring income with an average contract value of $120K per customer per year.
Customers
Spiffy serves 410 fleet customers as of 2022, including all major rental car companies such as Hertz, Avis Budget, Sixt, and Enterprise, as well as corporate fleets like AutoZone, Verizon, and Wegmans. The consumer segment makes up the remaining 15% of revenue.
Team
The company employs approximately 60 people at headquarters and over 500 W-2 technicians in the field, operating 280 leased service vans across the United States. Scot noted that headquarters is kept lean intentionally, with investment concentrated in field operations.
Funding
Spiffy completed a $30M Series B, with the final $10M tranche closing earlier in 2022 from a larger firm that Scot hopes will lead the next round. The company has pursued a disciplined capital strategy, avoiding high valuations that would be difficult to grow into.
Growth Strategy
Land and Expand with Fleet Customers
Spiffy enters fleet accounts with a single acute need such as oil changes, then expands to cover washes, tires, windshields, and full preventive maintenance. This mirrors a SaaS land-and-expand motion and drives average contract values up over time.
Geographic Expansion Through Acquisitions
Spiffy has completed approximately 4 acquisitions to enter new markets, including the purchase of Pit Crew to establish a presence in Nashville. Acquisitions also provide vertical service expansion into additional vehicle care categories.
Optimizing Average Daily Revenue per Truck
The company tracks a proprietary metric called average daily revenue per truck, or ADRT, and optimizes van schedules by mixing fleet and consumer jobs throughout the day. This Tetris-like scheduling approach maximizes utilization across the 280-van fleet.
Inbound Demand with a Minimal Sales Team
Spiffy runs a 5-person sales team despite $50M in revenue, relying on strong inbound demand from fleet operators who need mobile car care services. The company focuses more on matching capacity to demand than on outbound marketing spend.
Software Licensing as a Future Growth Vector
Scot described Spiffy's proprietary ERP software stack as a potential standalone product that could be licensed to other mobile service operators, positioning the company as a Shopify for digital services delivered to physical locations.
Best Quotes
“Yes. So I I have an ecommerce background and had my first Uber experience around 2013. And the moment for me was, could we apply all those interesting things we learned in ecommerce SaaS to car care? And, you know, so the way it should work is you should have people come to you to take care of your car, versus you going to them.”
“Nathan, are you sitting down? I thought I would never say this, but we have about 280 vans zipping around The United States, every day.”
“It ends up being about $2,000.”
“Across our whole network, we're at 800. So we have cities that are getting there, but we're you know, that that is a theoretical you know, we we've we've gotten there and, you know, like like, every day we have five trucks that get there, but that's like that's that's a stretch goal, let's say.”
“So you have to take the, you know, fifteen percent's consumer, so you have to 85% the 50 and then divide by that to get to the number.”
“So so where we have argued is we're we're we're SaaS like, but we should you know, we don't we don't earn SaaS multiples. So so we've been getting, you know, kinda like around a little around half to 60% of SaaS multiples, which I'm okay with because I've been in the other situation where, you know, you have this valuation that's really hard to grow with.”
“So there's no reason your local plumber wouldn't use this software. We could be Shopify for digital services is where we're going.”
“We just crossed 50,000,000 ARR.”
What Happened Next
This interview captures Spiffy at a specific moment in July 2022, when the company had just crossed $50M ARR and completed a $30M Series B. The figures here reflect what Scot Wingo reported at that time and should not be taken as current performance. Visit the Spiffy company profile on GetLatka for the latest available data on revenue, customers, and funding.
View Spiffy’s current profile and metricsFull Transcript
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Spiffy Overview
- 0:26Ecommerce Roots and the On-Demand Car Care Model
- 1:33Three Growth Dimensions: Services, Geographies, Customers
- 1:57B2B vs Consumer Split and Key Fleet Customers
- 4:48Fleet Pricing and Oil Change Economics
- 7:48280 Leased Vans and the ADRT Metric
- 9:30Truck Utilization: $800 Average vs $2,000 Theoretical Max
- 11:30W-2 Technicians and Contractor Marketplace
- 12:53Acquisitions and Vertical Integration Strategy
- 14:00Series B Fundraising and Capital Strategy
- 14:15Team Size: HQ and Field Technicians
- 15:50Market Opportunity and TAM
- 17:48Software Licensing and Shopify for Services Vision
- 18:51Valuation Discussion and Famous Five
Introduction and Spiffy Overview
Nathan Latka
00:00Hey, folks. My guest today is Scot Wingo. He's a four time entrepreneur, number three. He's channel adviser, which was a public SaaS company greater than $150,000,000 in ARR. He's now building getspiffy.com, which is on demand car care with an interesting SaaS plus marketplace angle. Scot, ready to take us to the top?
Scot Wingo
00:15>> I am.
Nathan Latka
00:16Alright. So really enjoyed having you on last time, and and and you really are a sort of a blended model, I would
00:21say, between almost marketplace fintech and SaaS. Help people understand what you do.
Ecommerce Roots and the On-Demand Car Care Model
Scot Wingo
00:26>> Yes. So I I have an ecommerce background and had my first Uber experience around 2013. And the moment for me was, could we apply all those interesting things we learned in ecommerce SaaS to car care? And, you know, so the way it should work is you should have people come to you to take care of your car, versus you going to them. So ecommerce and SaaS, mindset applied to car care, and there's three dimensions we grow
00:51>> in Spiffy, which is kind of fun. Having done a a large SaaS business, you get to the one dimension is just pulling the lever on on QBSRs, and marketing spend. I know you talk a lot about that. And, so we we have that as well, but we also have different geographies. So there's geography component to this, and then different types of services we provide and then different types of customers. So I'm sure we'll get into that,
01:15>> but that's that's what's fun. If we can turn all three of those dials, we can grow, you know, really, really quickly.
Nathan Latka
01:20Yeah. Let's start with the customer. So when you were on back in August '20 around August 2020, you said you had about 900 customers. But for those that are just listening now, what is a customer for you? Can you can you can you name one or two of them?
Three Growth Dimensions: Services, Geographies, Customers
Scot Wingo
01:33>> Yeah. So we have we have a b two b component of our business and a consumer. We're 85% b to b, which is fleet in my world of car care, and then, 15% consumer. Consumers would be like you in Austin. You need your car, your oil change, or something like that. And then on the fleet, that's, so the consumer part of our business is very, not super recurring, etcetera. But then our fleet business is more SaaS.
B2B vs Consumer Split and Key Fleet Customers
Scot Wingo
01:57>> So these fleets have x number of vehicles. They need services at a certain pace. The vehicles are driven driven at a certain mileage. So like a SaaS business, it has a predictable recurring, you know, not committed. There is some commitment there, but but a a very measurable, predictable kind of component to it. Within that bucket, the our largest customers are rental car company companies. So we have all the large rental car companies are our customers, Enterprise,
02:23>> Hertz, Avis Budget, Sixt, etcetera. Then we have a bunch of vehicle two point o companies. So these are next generation car sharing networks, autonomous networks, EV car sharing companies. And then the third bucket is logistics. So we work a lot with Amazon DSPs. So it's kind of fun to get back to my ecommerce roots on that. And then we we have four other buckets of fleets, but those those give you an idea of some of the
02:47>> customers that we have.
Nathan Latka
02:48If I'm Hertz, right, in Raleigh at the airport, I've got a 100 cars at that location, and I need you to clean them or oil change or whatever vacuum them once every week. What am I gonna pay you?
Scot Wingo
03:00>> Yeah. We'd like to bundle it. We call it, you know, like this fleet management as a service. So f m a a s. So so what we wanna do is really enter into one of our and, again, this is kinda like taking our SaaS knowledge and applying it to this. So so it's land and expand. So you you know that really well. So we go in. Usually, our customer has an acute need like an oil change
03:19>> problem. And we go in with that, and then we wanna take care of not only oil change, but wash, tires, windshields. We wanna take over the whole vehicle. And then we typically start with preventive maintenance, and there's another wedge, which is in in fleeting and then removing vehicles from the whole cycle. So so what we try to do is get in there and do everything. But, you know, of that fleet business, about a third is oil
03:42>> change, a third is wash, and a third is other, which includes tires, brakes, light repair, windshield, odor elimination. We're doing a lot of that. Shout out to the cannabis industry. There, we're Hey. Freakonomics, that's that's hugely benefiting us because as people smoke cannabis in cars, it creates a lot of odors, which is good for me.
Nathan Latka
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Fleet Pricing and Oil Change Economics
Nathan Latka
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06:24the interview. And so what what would that charge be like if I'm having you do oil changes on a 100 cars per week?
Scot Wingo
06:30>> Yeah. So it scales with volume. So a consumer oil change is about a $100. And then with some of our fleet partners, you know, just the oil change, we can get into the $40, $50 zone. Per car. You'll like this, yeah, per per vehicle. But but there'll be a a commitment of volume there. So Yep.
Nathan Latka
06:44Yeah. And what is that commitment usually? I mean, we're talking a 100 cars or a thousand cars.
Scot Wingo
06:48>> It's thousands. Mhmm.
Nathan Latka
06:50Yeah. If I remember this correctly, you you actually invented or you have your own sort of, like, mini little oil change trucks, which you bought. They sit on your balance sheet. Right? And that's how you do these quickly and efficiently?
Scot Wingo
07:01>> Yeah. We we we lease them, so they're not on our balance sheet, technically. But yeah. So we we, you know, we wanna be a premium offering. And because of that, we have our own technicians, they are w two, and our own vans that we lease. And they have a lot of equipment to go out there and deliver the service. So so there is a delivery component to this, which is really interesting, and and kind of uniquely
07:23>> There there's pros and cons to it. We like it because we can control the customer experience. At the end of the day, what I learned from twenty years of ecommerce is the companies that do best control the customer experience from soup to nuts, like Tesla versus, like, a traditional auto manufacturer. If you can control that whole customer experience, that's the place to be. So we've built it that way.
Nathan Latka
07:42Well, how many of those leased vehicles, right, that you use to service all your customer contracts are do you have today?
280 Leased Vans and the ADRT Metric
Scot Wingo
07:48>> Nathan, are you sitting down? I thought I would never say this, but we have about 280 vans zipping around The United States, every day.
Nathan Latka
07:55So how do you from a resource allocation perspective, what do you do? You look at, like, headcount per per per capita and make sure you've got one car with an x amount above million, or how do you measure that?
Scot Wingo
08:05>> It's an excellent question. Because once you have these assets, it becomes a optimization problem. And the way we think about it is that the simplest metric is average day average daily revenue per truck, ADRT, is a metric we've come up with, and we're constantly optimizing that. And, you know, so so what you wanna do is have the most number of it's kinda like a Tetris game. It's kind of a fun simplification of it. So so so
08:28>> the board is the availability of the van with the technician, and then we're constantly trying to fill that board and and put business in there. So some some because we have multiple different types of customers, it makes it easier. So so a technician in Austin may spend the morning at a fleet customer out at the airport and then go pick up two or three services nearby. And that juices that average daily revenue per truck by having
08:50>> the mix of consumer and the fleet business. Or maybe they go to AutoZone and do a vehicle. They do a rental car company, and then they pick up a, there's a there's a car sharing network in Austin called Free to Move. So we work with them. So we may do some services for them as well. So the more customers we have in a geo and be they b to b or b to c, the more opportunity
09:09>> we have to optimize what that truck does every day. So we we don't wanna get any of software too.
09:15>> Well, you know, there's this kind of you know? So so there's twenty four hours a day. So, you know, basically, that's kinda basically it is how do how do we fill up every truck twenty four hours a day. Mhmm.
Nathan Latka
09:26What would that be if it was a perfectly efficient truck? How much could it make in a day?
Truck Utilization: $800 Average vs $2,000 Theoretical Max
Scot Wingo
09:30>> It ends up being about $2,000.
Nathan Latka
09:322 k a day. And how close are you to that? Are you, like, 50% capacity or 75? Or
Scot Wingo
09:37>> Yeah. Across our whole network, we're at 800. So we have cities that are getting there, but we're you know, that that is a theoretical you know, we we've we've gotten there and, you know, like like, every day we have five trucks that get there, but that's like that's that's a stretch goal, let's say.
Nathan Latka
09:53Every day you have five trucks that hit two k?
Scot Wingo
09:55>> Yeah. Yeah.
09:56>> But on average, it's 800.
Nathan Latka
09:57Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.
09:59I mean, well, so two eighty trucks times $800 a day, what is that?
10:04$230,000 a day in total revenue, top line?
Scot Wingo
10:07>> Potential.
Nathan Latka
10:08Yeah. Potential revenue. Interesting. Yeah. The other there's humans involved here too. These aren't robots yet. So so and and these are the person in Austin, for example, you said these are full time folks. Right? You're not there's not a contractor network here.
Scot Wingo
10:20>> That's correct. Now we we do build a contractor network because when we do this fleet management as a service, frequently, these fleets, like free to move in your city there, they'll say, want you to take care of everything. Well, we don't do bodywork. We don't do, you know, other other elements, heavy repair. So that's where we're building marketplace of third parties that we could pull in into the the account and have them fix the windshields like
10:43>> Safelite as a partner there and then other services around the vehicle. But we'll do we're we're we'll do the kind of the the core of those services and be the Mhmm. The primary coordinator of those services.
Nathan Latka
10:54I mean, this also must fuel your m and a strategy. Right? If you wanna vertically integrate, you just talked about Tesla versus the other manufacturers. You wanna own that windshield repair company eventually. Right? Have you made acquisitions to date?
Scot Wingo
11:05>> We have. We've done about four acquisitions in in And am I
Nathan Latka
11:08bang on there, or am I am I Yeah.
Scot Wingo
11:09>> So there's a geography component. So we acquired a company last year called Pit Crew that got us into Tennessee. So Nashville, as I'm sure you're aware, is like Austin is in the Raleigh Durham I'm in. It's like one of these areas that has this huge net influx of people. So we wanted to be there. So that got us a geographic expansion. We have done acquisitions that have given us more vertical expansion as well into other other
11:29>> services.
W-2 Technicians and Contractor Marketplace
Nathan Latka
11:30Really interesting. Now you have decided to, to raise I think last we spoke, you had gone through a 10,000,000 series c. Was that right?
Scot Wingo
11:39>> Yeah. That was a tap up to a b. So we added we did a 20,000,000 series b, and we added a 10,000,000. We had kind of an inbound, opportunity there and added to that, and that was, you know, earlier this year we announced that.
Nathan Latka
11:52So okay, sir. Sorry. Say that again. So back in 2019, you did a 20,000,000 you did a 10,000,000 series b or 20,000,000?
Scot Wingo
11:57>> Okay. So we did, 30,000,000 series b that we had some chunks in it, but the last chunk was 10,000,000, and that was earlier this year.
Nathan Latka
12:06I see. I see. I see. Got it. Got it. Got it. What can you was that just like a strategic partner?
Scot Wingo
12:10>> It it was a larger firm that wanna do a large round, but we weren't quite ready for it. So we'd kinda split the baby as it were, and we were able to get them to put a little bit into that. And then hopefully, they'll lead our next round.
Nathan Latka
12:22Are you able to convince them to allow you to create a bunch of secondary opportunity for your early employees since you didn't need the money?
Scot Wingo
12:30>> Yeah. We'll see. You know, right, we're actually pretty young in our you know, because we've been growing so fast, most of our employees are pretty young in their vesting cycle.
12:40Mhmm.
12:40>> I'm in a position this is my fourth company where I don't really wanna do secondary. I'm I'm kinda doing the opposite. I'm investing into into things. Yep. So secondary hasn't been a huge consideration for us.
Nathan Latka
12:51Yeah. Interesting. What is the team size today?
Acquisitions and Vertical Integration Strategy
Scot Wingo
12:53>> So we have about 60 people in headquarters. So so in this model, we wanna keep our headquarters as kind of light as possible, because it's really overhead for the operations that go on. And out in the field, we have over, you know, hope you hope you're sitting down. We have over 500 technicians, that are, you know, running around doing those services. Yeah. It seems scary, but, you know, ChannelAdvisor got to be a thousand people at a
13:16>> 100,000,000 SaaS. So so it's just a different model, and you build systems and processes the same engines we would build for QBSRs, STRs, and all those BDRs and things that you, you know, we talk about in SaaS. We've just built those for how do you recruit, retain this this level of an employee and make them effective, but then use software to automate it all.
Nathan Latka
13:36Yep. These tech and these technicians are full time. Right?
Scot Wingo
13:39>> They are. They're w two. So they you know, the w two worker is an hourly employee. They are an employee, but they don't all get forty hours. So so let's say it starts raining buckets in Austin. We we basically send them home, and if they wanna get their hours, they'll have to work, you know you know, whatever state laws are or on the weekend or whatever like that. Yeah. And they're used to that. The hourly worker
Series B Fundraising and Capital Strategy
Scot Wingo
14:00>> is used to that model.
Nathan Latka
14:01Yeah. Now I believe last time we spoke, I asked you what the average revenue was for, you know, the Hertz. Right? The the the b two b part of your business. And I think you said something like $12,000 a year or 1,800 a month. Is that still about right?
Team Size: HQ and Field Technicians
Scot Wingo
14:15>> Yeah. So those have grown so just to give you an idea, you know, our we just crossed 50,000,000 ARR.
Nathan Latka
14:20So that's exciting. So That's very exciting, Scot. Congrats.
Scot Wingo
14:23>> The 4,166,000 is a you know, as people that have MRR, ARR, these numbers stick in your head, so we we crossed over that one. So 4,166,000, we crossed over that. So that's exciting to to do that.
Nathan Latka
14:36That's just you guys. That's that's that's in monthly recurring revenue is what he's referring to.
Scot Wingo
14:39>> Yeah. So so your question was these fleets, if you kinda took the revenue for fleets and divided it in, I think it's gone up considerably because some of them have gotten really, really big. So I would say it's more like a 120 k. So
Nathan Latka
14:54Yeah. A 120 k. Yeah. Interesting. So 120 k divided by the 50,000,000. Yeah. So so how many fleet how many total fleets are you working with right now?
Scot Wingo
15:01>> So you have to take the, you know, fifteen percent's consumer, so you have to 85% the 50 and then divide by that to get to the number.
Nathan Latka
15:11Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your my math my math tells me you're around 410 fleet customers, somewhere around there.
Scot Wingo
15:17>> That's right.
Nathan Latka
15:18Yeah. Yeah. Really compelling. How much of the market do you already own in The US? Like, are there more than 410 you can go get?
Scot Wingo
15:26>> There's a lot more. Yeah. So so the rental car, we're we're you know, the, if you just think about the companies, we're we're fully penetrated. But, you know, there's a land and expand inside of there. So there's services and then different geographies. So so just rental car could be 10 x of what it is today. That being said, we wanna diversify. So, you know, as we look at corporate fleets, think about how many companies have their
Market Opportunity and TAM
Scot Wingo
15:50>> own fleets. We work with AutoZone, Verizon, and Wegmans there. The Amazon DSP opportunity alone is probably a $200,000,000 opportunity, for the last mile stuff. Yeah. So it's it's a little the TAM here is, like, so honking big. It's it's yeah. We don't really it can be distracting to think about it. It's so big. It's kinda, like, overwhelming. So we just try to, every day, come into work and make customers happy and and poke into other areas
16:14>> that we wanna get into.
Nathan Latka
16:16Hey. This is I can tell you're having fun doing this. What when you're not when you're not building a Wingo or when you're not building this Spiffy, what are you doing? Is this Star Wars fan in the background? Is that what I'm seeing?
Scot Wingo
16:23>> It is. Yes. So I have three kids. So that's primary where I spend my time. But then my hobbies, I collect Star Wars stuff. And then, yeah, I'm a super geek. So then, you you're familiar with comic books. Well, there's original art behind comic books, so I collect, original art of comic books. That's a fun hobby of mine.
Nathan Latka
16:39Can you name one of the original art pieces you own?
Scot Wingo
16:41>> Yeah. So my favorite artist is this guy, Todd McFarlane. He came in and revitalized Spider Man, and then he left and started his own company. He was an entrepreneur, which is kind of interesting. So he started Image Comics and is the CEO of that. So I have a lot of the comic book art that that he did for both on Spider Man and in this this series called Spawn.
Nathan Latka
16:58Very cool. Well, Scot, this is a heck of a story. It's fun. I mean, you also have so many you didn't even talk about this, but, I mean, you sit on so much, like, transaction data here too. I mean, you could eventually get into sort of that model as well, and it's a percent of GMV. Right?
Scot Wingo
17:12>> Yeah. Where where I think this goes, and I'm a big study of Amazon, is we're developing this software stack that's pretty it's an ERP for running a mobile first like, you know, we think mobile first, meaning phone. I mean, like, mobile, like, stuff services come to you, digital services. I think where we go next is we're starting to license out our software. So Yeah. So so the stack we have built, we could not have built unless
17:34>> we had built the company. So that's that's where I get really excited is we're essentially a software company that that looks like a service business and has SaaS attributes to it. I think we've become a SaaS business.
Nathan Latka
17:47Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Software Licensing and Shopify for Services Vision
Scot Wingo
17:48>> So there's no reason your local plumber wouldn't use this software. We could be Shopify for digital services is where we're going.
Nathan Latka
17:53Totally. You can help them with the whole I mean, your franchise. Right? So the question like your Wendy's, right, you're giving them the software to run their own Wendy's. The only question then is how do they get the traffic to it, which maybe you're thinking about how to solve that as well? How to get the customers in?
Scot Wingo
18:04>> Yeah. The the thing about this is, this will make my SaaS friends very jealous is we we actually hardly do any marketing or sales. We have, like, a a five person sales team. Wild. Yeah. It's wild. So there's the there's a lot huge demand for what we're doing, and we spend more time matching our our capabilities and and capacity to that demand. So so we would give them those tools, and we have those tools, but it's
18:28>> actually they're they're such you know, the con the convenience oriented customer, be they b to b or consumer, is is so in demand for what we're doing that that we don't spend a ton of time on that side of it.
Nathan Latka
18:39Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah. Interesting. Last question is is valuation related. So you just did this extra 10 millions or a top up. It sounds like you have a leverage here. I mean, are you guys gotta be flirting with a $400, $500, $600,000,000 valuation at this point. Right?
Valuation Discussion and Famous Five
Scot Wingo
18:51>> Yeah. Yeah. Again, this is my fourth company, and, I try not to get too far ahead of my skis. So so where we have argued is we're we're we're SaaS like, but we should you know, we don't we don't earn SaaS multiples.
Nathan Latka
19:04Yeah.
Scot Wingo
19:05>> So so we've been getting, you know, kinda like around a little around half to 60% of SaaS multiples, which I'm okay with because I've been in the other situation where, you know, you have this valuation that's really hard to grow with.
Nathan Latka
19:20So,
Scot Wingo
19:21>> that's that's cataclysmic, and I try to avoid them.
Nathan Latka
19:23Yeah. Well, 50% of a 40 x multiple, which was common, you know, six months ago, very different than a SaaS multi 50% of a SaaS multiple you're seeing today. So, obviously, valuations change, but we'll see. Yeah. Love what you're building. Let's wrap up here with the famous five. Number one, favorite book.
Scot Wingo
19:39>> Hard thing about hard things. I said this last time though, so I'm gonna
Nathan Latka
19:42>> No.
19:42You did good to great last time.
Scot Wingo
19:43>> Okay. Yeah.
Nathan Latka
19:45Yeah. I know you have variety here.
19:46This is good. Number two, is there a CEO you're following or studying?
Scot Wingo
19:50>> Elon's the easy answer.
19:54>> I really like Balaji and his kind of head exploding, thinking around, like, crypto nations and stuff like that. It's fun to think through through the the next ten years and what that looks like.
Nathan Latka
20:03Yeah. He's an interesting thinker there.
20:04Number I just think you just put out a a new book, network network something or other.
Scot Wingo
20:09>> Network state.
20:09>> Yeah. Network state. Yeah.
Nathan Latka
20:10Number three, what's your favorite online tool for building, for building Wingo or Spiffy? Sorry.
Scot Wingo
20:17>> I've been playing with Notion. Think that's kind of, you know, really exciting and kind of next generation way of doing things.
Nathan Latka
20:22I keep mixing up your last name with the company. You know, Wingo would be a great company name. I'm surprised you didn't just name it GetWingo.
Scot Wingo
20:28>> Yeah. There's an ego thing there. I'm not
Nathan Latka
20:31Fair. Fair. Fair. Yeah. You don't wanna see don't wanna build your cell, you have to sell your last name, you know. Number number four, how many hours of sleep do get every night?
Scot Wingo
20:38>> About six.
Nathan Latka
20:39Okay. And situation you mentioned, married, I think, three kids?
Scot Wingo
20:42>> Yep. Married, three kids.
Nathan Latka
20:43Married, three kids. Very cool. And, let's see. I guess I'm gonna guess you're 54 now. Right? Two birthdays? 53. Yep. You have a birthday coming up then. Ah, there we go. Very cool. 53. And, last question, something you wish you knew when you were 20.
Scot Wingo
21:02>> Buy Bitcoin.
Nathan Latka
21:03That's a good answer. Guys, SaaS executive, been there, done that, also loves collecting original comic book art, but now he's really helping and empowering and trying to build a software stack that will enable anyone that wants to deliver services to cars to start as the wedge anywhere in the world really do that with their software stack. He's built a company to build out that stack, really understand it, doing $50,000,000 in revenue across about four ten fleets.
21:23This is the Hertz of the world. He goes and, you know, replaces the oil change and does oil change at the Hertz fleets at the at the airport or does the windshield repair or windshield wipers. He currently owns at the company about 280 leased vehicles that he does around The US to do these this servicing. One third of his business is, again, through the fleet. You've got another part of the business, which are which are the
21:41Amazon DSP space, but, again, 85% of the total revenue b two b. If you wanna be a consumer and use them, you're gonna pay about a $100 for an oil change. So, Scot, thanks for taking us to the top.
Scot Wingo
21:49>> Thanks, Nathan. I need to bring you to all my pitches. You summarize faster than I do.
Nathan Latka
21:54Thanks, man.
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