By Andrew Zick (aezick)

1. Makers of:
Andrew Zick

2. ?
Founded as Firespotter Labs in 2011
Firespotter Labs created Nosh, Jotly, NoshList, UberConference by mid-2012
Firespotter Labs becomes Switch Communications and then Dialpad Inc., Nosh
disappeared, Jot.ly was a joke, NoshList becomes Waitlist.me, and
UberConference got eclipsed by Switch.co which was renamed Dialpad

3. What does Dialpad do?
Calls over Cellular and WiFi
Google Apps and Office 365
integration
Seamless device transfers

4. Business Model
Subscription-based
Skype is $13.99/month/user,
Google Hangouts is….free

5. Financials
Total funding = $154.5 million USD
Includes money from Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz
Revenue = $7 million USD
Profitable? Not yet...

6. Secret Sauce?
Not being acquired (yet).

7. Competition
Features ====>
____________
Companies
Landline and Mobile
Calling
International Calling Texting/Messaging Moving Between
Devices
Dialpad Subscription Subscription Subscription Subscription
Skype Less expensive
subscription
More expensive
subscription
Free! Nope
Google
Hangouts
Free! Free...if no phone is
involved
Free! Free!

8. Will Dialpad succeed?
Yes...as part of another company.

9. Sources
https://dialpad.com/press (What does Dialpad do?, Business Models)
https://www.uberconference.com/ (Dialpad?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialpad (Dialpad?)
http://www.firespotter.com/about (Dialpad?)
https://datafox.com/switch-communications-2 (Financials)
http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/feature/Google-Hangouts-vs-
Skype-A-comparative-look (Competition)