PodPlay Strategy

PodPlay Technologies  is the leading company powering a new type of model for experiential consumer businesses:  autonomous experiences . Autonomous e...

Most technology VC’s are allergic to 4-wall businesses. Physical space just doesn’t scale like software. So, if you pitch most VC’s the idea of spendi...

When club owners experience PodPlay’s integrated digital scoreboards and  replays  they immediately see why their customers would love it. The cool fa...

Leading the Customer Success team at PodPlay Technologies feels natural because I grew up in the service industry. My mother owned a private catering ...

In  On Visionary Founders Part I: Would Jay Gatsby be Investable?  I asked what we could learn about the archetype of the visionary founder from The G...

From a young age, my two great passions were literature and entrepreneurship. At various times, when I was asked “What do you want to do when you grow...

“All pickleball booking software is the same.” If you believe the above statement, this blog is not for you, and I would be happy to direct you to the...

I had an interaction with  Jason Lemkin  this weekend that made me think about key drivers of word-of-mouth. I agree with Jason that word-of-mouth is ...

Dear Pickleball Operators, If I told you that you can increase court utilization by 10% - do you have any idea how much money that can make you in a y...

In their 2023 State of Pickleball: Participation & Infrastructure Report,  Pickleheads and SFIA estimate there are 12,081 Pickleball facilities in th...

Picture yourself on the floor at Madison Square Garden watching your favorite band (I saw The National there recently so I’m going to picture that). T...

When PingPod acquired the assets of Sharks Pool Club in Q2 2023, the investment thesis was that it could dramatically improve Sharks profit margins by...

Have you ever watched your customers argue with each other over whether the score is 8-7 or 9-7? You watch in dismay as they question their playing pa...

Amazon’s retail business is built on the insight that customers value low prices, vast selection, and fast, convenient delivery - and that these drive...

Picture this: it’s match point. Your opponent hits a cross-court volley that looks like a winner, but you manage a lunging backhand return, perfectly ...

One of the key drivers of fast-growing racket sports like ping pong and pickleball is that almost anyone, regardless of age and athletic ability, can ...

Very few racket sports clubs would say they are in the business of managing inventory, which sounds boring, like stocking shelves. It is much more exc...

PingPod  came into existence when David pitched Max and Ernesto on the idea of building a network of small format ping pong venues (Pods) in New York ...

How do I navigate between the Admin Dashboard and the customer UI? To move between the front-end App to the back-end Admin Dashboard is easy. Simply,...

What is a PodPlay Client ? PodPlay clients are using PodPlay to run their facility. They use our software because it’s the only software in the recr...

If you find a bug, contact your PodPlay Customer Success Manager (CSM) and detail the bug you found for them to bring back to the PodPlay Developers. ...

PodPlay is easy to use, install, and incorporate into your Club’s standard operating procedures (SOPs). From a Software perspective, you can begin u...

How often is PodPlay updating software? The PodPlay team believes in constant iteration and evolution. We have worked across various sectors and know...