{"id":57826,"date":"2020-09-01T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.salesflare.com\/interview-nick-franklin-chartmogul"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:36:46","slug":"interview-nick-franklin-chartmogul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.salesflare.com\/es\/entrevista-nick-franklin-chartmogul","title":{"rendered":"Nick Franklin de ChartMogul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nick Franklin of ChartMogul<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"h2-subheader\">Founder Coffee episode 045<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"image regular \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.storychief.com\/account_481\/NickFranklin-ChartMogul-facebook_3eaa81ee9851de04749a95d095e57d4f_800.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I\u2019m Jeroen from Salesflare and this is Founder Coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Every few weeks I have coffee with a different founder. We discuss life, passions, learnings, \u2026 in an intimate talk, getting to know the person behind the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For this forty-fifth episode, I talked to Nick Franklin, Founder and CEO of ChartMogul, one of the leading platforms to track and analyze subscription metrics for SaaS and mobile subscription companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Previous to ChartMogul, Nick worked at Zendesk and he started up its EMEA and then Asian operations as a general manager. He experienced firsthand how difficult it was to track and analyze their metrics and he built up a system for it internally. It wasn\u2019t user friendly however, nor did it answer all his questions quickly. So after 5 years at Zendesk, he went out on his own and started ChartMogul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We talk about the joys of building stuff and hiring the right people, how he\u2019s looking to go deeper in the current niche, his plans with implementing EOS, living in Korea, and developing your own inner confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Welcome to Founder Coffee.<br>\n\n    <figure class=\"image strchf-type-image regular strchf-size-regular strchf-align-center\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/salesflare.com\">\n        <picture>\n          <source \n            srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-800.avif 1x, \n                    https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-1600.avif 2x\" \n            type=\"image\/avif\" \/>\n          <source \n            srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-800.png 1x, \n                    https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-1600.png 2x\" \n            type=\"image\/png\" \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" \n            src=\"https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-800.png\" \n            srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-800.png 1x, \n                    https:\/\/lib.salesflare.com\/images\/sf-blog-footer-transparent-1600.png 2x\" \n            alt=\"Try Salesflare's CRM\" \/>\n        <\/picture>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/figure><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Prefer listening? You can find this episode on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5mAWNhuDfHqkQcpQWHbkHq\">Spotify<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/be\/podcast\/founder-coffee\/id1361209224\">iTunes \/ Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Itm3izqy3zjcn3w6lmhmveqofhe\">Google Play<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/foundercoffee\/045-nick-franklin-chartmogul\">Soundcloud<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"embed regular \">\n<div class=\"embed-container\">\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%;position: relative;padding-top: 54.0541%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Hey, Nick. It\u2019s great to have you on Founder Coffee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">It\u2019s great to be here. Yeah. Thanks a lot for having me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. You\u2019re the cofounder of ChartMogul. For those who don\u2019t know yet, what do you guys do at ChartMogul?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yes. At ChartMogul, we\u2019re building the world\u2019s first subscription data platform. What that means is that we\u2019re building a platform to allow you to calculate your subscription metrics and manage and measure your subscription revenue. So we\u2019re allowed to do things like subscription analytics, as well as just revenue reporting in general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So we plug into your startup\u2019s billing system. This might be Stripe, or Recurly, or PayPal, even the Apple app store, Google Play. You plug those things in. That gets all ingested automatically and parsed and normalized. Then once we have that, we automatically calculate a lot of common SaaS metrics like monthly recurring revenue, churn rate, lifetime value, and things like that. There\u2019s a whole bunch of advanced tools for doing the segmentation cohort analysis and also for pushing that data out into all the systems as well, where it can be useful. So kind of like a subscription analytics data platform for subscription businesses. Over half our companies are SaaS businesses and a lot of mobile subscription companies these days as well. We\u2019re about 42-43 people, a remote company, five years old. That\u2019s the shorter intro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Cool. I didn\u2019t know you were going beyond SaaS companies. What does mobile subscription businesses mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. So this could be a fitness app, meditation app on the iPhone, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.com\/degrees\/best-online-certifications-that-pay-well\">e-learning online education<\/a>, a language learning app or something like that. Anything really mobile. It\u2019s not just mobile, but that has been the trend in the last couple of years. We\u2019ve always been around two thirds SaaS, and one third consumer. The trend in the last couple of years has definitely been towards mobile subscriptions versus desktop subscriptions. A lot of those. Especially this year with the lockdowns and stuff, a lot of people signing up for dance classes, virtual dance classes on the iPad or things like e-learning, remote learning and things like that. That\u2019s definitely been the trend there. Our bread and butter is probably B2B SaaS. Maybe for people like you and me, it\u2019s less exciting than these other ones, right? Like iPhone meditation or these kinds of apps are kind of a bit more fun because they are different from what we do in our day to day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. I understand. I had a question, but now I forgot. What is the main thing that you bring to these businesses actually? I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s different from B2B SaaS to mobile subscription businesses, but what is the reason that people come to you, to ChartMogul? In the most simple way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. There\u2019s two or three parts to it. First of all, the first part of the value that we bring is mostly around automation. So you might say you\u2019re a subscription business that builds your customers using Stripe, but then you also have revenue in PayPal and maybe in App Store and Google Play. Who knows multiple systems, or even if it\u2019s just a single system, you want to be able to calculate a bunch of business metrics. You want to be able to calculate your cash flow, your monthly recurring revenue and churn rate, and a kind of a bunch of general high level management metrics that your leadership team are interested in tracking for the performance of the company, and also your finance team are interested in for budget planning. If you have investors and other stakeholders, they\u2019d be interested in just kind of getting a sense of how one of their portfolio companies is doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So we effectively automate the process of giving you that stuff in real time. We give you all the kind of most useful metrics that a subscription business needs in real time with either no or very little coding required. Whereas previously, that would be a lot of work in Excel and then it\u2019s out of date, or it\u2019s not up to date, or what would be the data science team having to build that out. Build and maintain scripts and a data stack to give you all that kind of stuff. The first piece of value is around just automating the process of calculating the stuff and keeping it up to date. The second piece of value is around going deeper than that. It\u2019s around insight and kind of discovering things that might change decision-making, like looking at pricing, looking at your various plans and comparing the performance of the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">A very common use case is after people use ChartMogul, they end up changing their pricing to better optimize their business. It\u2019s helping with the support decision making within the organization. You can also plug in other data sources, not just the payment billing systems, but things like HubSpot for marketing channels. So you can then see which marketing channels have a higher lifetime value or better retention rates. The customers come from which channels, and that also helps support decision making within the growth marketing teams. So, that\u2019s the second piece of value that it supports. It\u2019s kind of these two things. Automation and then sort of supporting decision making, I guess. The two main, two primary pieces of value that we bring to our customers. It\u2019s kind of the same, regardless if it\u2019s B2B SaaS or mobile consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Understood. Cool. How did you get to the idea of starting ChartMogul? It was five years ago or so, and you figured that you needed a better way to do one of these two things? How did that happen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. So the backstory is that I started by creating a product and a little bit of engineering. But I\u2019m not a very good engineer, so I worked mostly in product in a startup in the UK. While I was there, I became a customer of Zendesk, the support ticketing system. After Zendesk did their series A, they reached out to me and I ended up joining their team in the UK and built up the start of their UK operations. Then I moved to Asia, started the Asian operations opening offices in Tokyo and Manila, Philippines to kind of build up the sales and support for the product. Then Europe and also the Asia region for Zendesk. I spent five years at Zendesk on the commercial side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">While I was there, you know, you get measured. If you\u2019re in a sales role or sales management, sales leadership role, you get measured on how much MRR you bring in, in a given month or given quarter. We\u2019d built some dashboards for showing internally as kind of custom stuff to show how well you are doing. So, it\u2019s quite addictive. So these dashboards, the user experience wasn\u2019t very good. We were using things off the shelf. We were using a SaaS product, but it wasn\u2019t really meant for subscriptions businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">It was just meant to do any kind of analysis on the use of that. But the user experience wasn\u2019t really very SaaS-y, in a way. I think the whole idea of SaaS is to create these well-designed, beautifully simple user experiences and that\u2019s what we were trying to do at Zendesk. I think that\u2019s what most SaaS founders I know are trying to do. Trying to take something that\u2019s usually quite unpleasant, in terms of its user experience, from the old enterprise software\u2014has a bad reputation for being not particularly well-designed or user-friendly in terms of the look and feel\u2014and then taking that and making it simpler and more friendly and bringing it online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Anyway, to get to the point, we had built something internally. And because of the numbers that were in there, it was a little bit addictive to keep checking that. But the user experience wasn\u2019t very good and it wasn\u2019t a very empowering experience. For example, when I was responsible for Asia, it would have been good to be able to see, \u201cOkay, well, which markets are performing better ?\u201d Like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the average revenue per customer in Singapore versus Hong Kong?\u201d or something like that. But it was hard to play with the data and slice it up, so any time you want to do anything, you have to maybe send an email off and ask the data team to build your new report. And then, you have to follow up two weeks later when it doesn\u2019t get done, or something like this very typical, traditional thing that would happen in companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Whereas, ideally the people that actually want to understand the thing could just click around and get the answers to their questions themselves. So, the idea came from there, that experience of seeing, \u201cOkay, how is MRR getting measured?\u201d and these things and the potential power there. I just figured maybe if I built something just for subscription businesses, added some SaaS product, I could give a more empowering user experience to people, but make it for niche businesses. And also, as my heart is really in product, and I spent five years doing sales and support; I wanted to get back into product. So yeah, I left Zendesk in the middle of 2014 and threw myself into starting this business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Oh, returning back to the product base, yeah?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I can see how starting your own company is a good way to get back to building stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. That was always an ambition as well. So I guess I could have gone back and I could have gone back to being a team member within another company in product. I would have been happiest doing that as well, but I also had this ambition of trying to see if I could start a startup and make it work. I had an itch to scratch, so I just felt like I had to do it, had to try, and I got to that point. I don\u2019t know. I think I just turned 30, or something like this, or was about to. I just felt like I should just go for it. Otherwise, I\u2019ll regret not quitting my job and going all in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Have you always been into building stuff? Obviously, previously in your career, you were product managing and doing some engineering as well. But before that, did you always like doing that or is it just something that grew on you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">No, I always liked building stuff. Yeah, always, always. Yeah, from when I was a kid. I used to make stop-motion animated short films using a Super 8 mm camera and then webcam came out. We bought a webcam and you use that for doing stop-motion animation. I thought I\u2019d go into film; I studied film production. But then, I got excited about software and technology when I was in university. In university, I was doing animation and illustration, but I got more interested in software. I ended up building a social network for artists when I was in university because I wasn\u2019t a very good student. I was quite disinterested, at the time, in my study, so I started learning PHP, mySQL, LAMP stack, and building that and then launched that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We actually got on TechCrunch, which was pretty cool and did okay for a while, but it was never really a business that would take off. So I think I actually sold it for a token amount of money at some point and moved on. And then, I got a job after university. So yeah, I\u2019ve always been doing something. I always had it in my mind that I might want to try and start a business because it allows you to build whatever you want to build, I suppose, as long as it\u2019s partially viable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. And if you ever stop with ChartMogul, would you then consider going back into things like video and animation? It seems like part of your heart is there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I don\u2019t think so. I think I prefer product. If I look at the companies I really admire, I like the combination of tech hardware and software like Apple or even car companies, or Dyson or something where they mix hardware and software together. It\u2019s cool, but it\u2019s a romance just thinking about it. It doesn\u2019t make any sense for ChartMogul. It\u2019s purely a software company. If I was to do something different, it would be to try to do something where hardware and software come together. Elon Musk\u2019s businesses are also a combination of hardware and software. But if I wasn\u2019t to do this, it wouldn\u2019t be to go into film production. It would probably just be something else in the technology sphere. Yeah, for sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Why do you think hardware and software? Because it feels more tangible than a software product?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I don\u2019t know. When you do 3D computer animation, you also spend all the time doing 3D modelling and also CAD modeling and stuff like that. I\u2019m familiar with it. Using solid works and some manufacturing techniques. I don\u2019t know, just something. Yeah, it\u2019s tangible. Hardware is usually consumer, right? I\u2019m not sure actually, but the hardware that we see is usually consumer products. But I guess, there\u2019s a whole ton of B2B hardware as well, but I\u2019m just not as familiar with that anymore because that\u2019s not been my focus. We don\u2019t really buy B2B hardware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, no.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Maybe monitors or something, right? For the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Monitors, right. Yeah. I was also looking around here and today I\u2019m in the office and wondering B2B hardware, what is it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Well, it\u2019s like the machinery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Machinery?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Lots of stuff. You know, industrial?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Lots of stuff. There\u2019s all sorts of stuff. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s bigger, consumer, airplanes? Tons of stuff, but I just don\u2019t know, just kind of interest, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Got it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Like I\u2019m into motorbikes or I used to be. I\u2019m through with them now but yeah. Yeah, I think it\u2019s partly the tangible part, but then I do also love software as well. So I think businesses that mix somehow tech together, robotics, it\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">What is your plan currently with Chart Mogul? Are you guys planning to go into more niches, let\u2019s say? Because you mentioned you were doing B2B SaaS, some B2C SaaS next to that, and now growing the mobile subscription business. Or are there other plans that you\u2019re making, maybe expanding into hardware? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">No, probably not that. But our plan is to actually go deeper into our current niche. So we\u2019re not going to add new markets anytime soon. Our plan is to be the very best product for doing subscription analytics, for managing your subscription billing data, for basically getting value out of your subscription revenue, subscription payments, subscription billing data, extracting value from that. And going super deep on that. There\u2019s still a ton of stuff we haven\u2019t done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, for example?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I mean, I think we have a stronger product market fit for a small SMB SaaS with 10, 30, 40 employees, than we do for a SaaS company that has 400, 500 employees or more. At some point the requirements become more and more complex over time and they will acquire more and more flexibility. So we\u2019re building that flexibility. We have large customers that do a hundred million or more in annual recurring revenue. And we want to be able to be a really strong fit for those types of businesses, as well as the startups where we have lots of those too. So, there\u2019s just a ton of stuff that we need to get better at and provide some more functionality, improve the functionality we already have, add more flexibility, add more performance and power and stuff. It\u2019s also like a product, if you have a few hundred thousand subscribers, it\u2019s slower than it is if you have a few hundred subscribers or whatever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So there\u2019s just a ton of stuff to better serve the existing market that we\u2019re already serving and to get better at that. And I think the bigger gains for us is about really focusing on that core that we\u2019re already good at. But we want to get really great at it where it\u2019s just a total no-brainer if you\u2019re a SaaS company or a subscription business, digital subscription business. We don\u2019t put so much focus on physical products. There are the subscription Dollar Shave Club type businesses, that\u2019s not our niche. Our niche is really digital subscription products. And I think the best thing we can do and the best way we can serve our customers and grow, is through narrowing and increasing our focus. And we\u2019re hiring more engineers, more product people, et cetera, in order to just double down on that and just provide better products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">But what is exactly in the core? Do you consider helping salespeople to identify the right leads or identifying churn or something like that? Is that also part of the core, or is the core really around unlocking subscription data to get insights?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I think it\u2019s two things. It\u2019s the two pieces of value I talked about before. Automatically making it as quick and easy as possible to get accurate metrics in the way that you want them. Even that is a hard thing in itself, people like to measure things in different ways. There\u2019s something called committed or contracted MRR. And then there\u2019s something called MRR or realized MRR. So there\u2019s different ways to measure things, and there\u2019s different metrics that different types of companies care about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Like one thing that we should do a better job at is providing better reporting and more value for B2B SaaS companies that don\u2019t have any monthly subscriptions. So purely annual contracts or two year contracts, these kinds of SaaS businesses. I\u2019ve seen a lot of those. And we have a lot of those as our customers, but we could do a better job of servicing those customers, looking at better reports around annual churn, annual retention. These kinds of things where right now it\u2019s a bit too geared towards a monthly subscription model. So we need to add more flexibility there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For example, it\u2019s just one example of 10, 20 different things that we need to improve in order to better service our core. In terms of helping sales reps identify needs, probably not. I think there\u2019s a whole industry that does that, like Slice. It used to be called Slice, it\u2019s not called that now. Infer, it\u2019s called now. And that was one of the first ones, but there\u2019s tons of lead scoring tools. MadKudu, a cool company. And there\u2019s things that plug in, it\u2019s a CRM domain and things that plug into the CRM there. Identify churn, I mean, I\u2019m not quite sure what that means, the other point you made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, identify churn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">No, okay. I get it. You\u2019re staying with the data. That\u2019s your core, and you\u2019re building around that. In terms of funding, you guys raised, I think, you mentioned about three seed rounds. Not really raising as seriously there right now, I don\u2019t know about that, maybe that\u2019s something private? But what is your plan there, are you planning on taking more money? Is it something you\u2019re holding off now? Is there something you can tell us about that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I mean, we\u2019re cash flow positive right now, more or less. Some months we burn more, but we don\u2019t have an immediate cash crunch. We\u2019re 40 plus people with good growth, so we\u2019re able to hire more engineers and more people, more marketing, more sales and things like this, as our revenue is growing quite healthily. I think with raising additional capital, we look at it and we assess this periodically about our capital needs. But also you have to look, okay, what would you do with that additional capital? How would you spend it? Would you get a healthy return where it makes sense for both the investors on the company, all the stakeholders involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So far, yeah, we\u2019ve been really lucky and happy to have great investors and we\u2019ve spent their money to get where we are. And we\u2019ve also spent our customers\u2019 revenue to get where we are as well. We pretty much invest everything back into the company. I think if we felt we were capital constrained and we weren\u2019t able to be as ambitious as we want to be because we don\u2019t have enough money, then I feel that would be a good reason to raise more. Or if we felt that we could pump 10 million, 20 million into sales and marketing and would get a healthy return in terms of the delta between what we\u2019re doing now, and what the output would be if we pumped more capital into sales and marketing, and would that be a good use of capital? Would it be a healthy growth? So we assessed that, and I guess so far, the answer has been, we\u2019re comfortable, and we have enough capital coming in, and remaining from our last round. But we\u2019ll see what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">What makes sense in the future is to be decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Sounds good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">What, if you would say, is something that keeps you up at night lately? Not capital, apparently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Keeps me up at night? This is probably not a good road to go down in terms of the conversation, but over half our revenues, 55% of our revenues are from the U.S. market. So I would say I have a vested interest. Apart from knowing lots of lovely people who live in the U.S., I also have a vested interest in that, in the U.S. being a stable and healthy and strong economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, yeah. Is it the U.S. dollar being a bit lower is what you mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Just in general. A strong U.S. economy, and a stable and strong U.S. economy, and the dollar, too, is just good for us. We make our revenues in U.S. dollars and we earn. Half our customers are in the U.S., et cetera. So definitely, I want the U.S. to do well. I guess looking at the news recently, I guess is a bit worrying. Although actually, things have been very healthy for us. There was a bit of a rough patch around March, April. But since May, June, July, it\u2019s all been good. This month, things are very healthy. They\u2019re going very well. I mean, the data looks like, in terms of what we see with our sales, it seems healthy. But just looking at the news, the economic news and stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Just a bit. Don\u2019t worry. I\u2019m an optimist. I hope everything goes well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">But it\u2019s a dangerous conversational road to go down, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I completely feel you. We also make a big part of our revenues in the U.S. The U.S. dollar is a bit lower, which makes for less Euros for the money we normally make. Plus, yeah, it\u2019s not good for businesses in general, or customers. It\u2019s not that we\u2019re seeing a lot of churn. But it\u2019s not like things are flourishing, either. So a similar situation also, with two down months, and then things back up. But the situation is not amazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Europe is a big trading partner. We\u2019re a European business, primarily. Headquarters in Berlin. U.S. is a big trading partner of Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We rely on them. Obviously, yeah, the coronavirus stuff this year has been stressful for everyone. Also, in general, we like to do annual offsite. Of course, we\u2019ve had to cancel that this year. So I don\u2019t get to see the team. I just get to see the teammates I have around me here in Seoul, which is just two other folks right now. Although we are hiring a couple more people, so it\u2019ll be a bit more of a community here. But we\u2019re pretty distributed and pretty remote. So that\u2019s a real bummer. I hope we can do it next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Praying we can do our annual. On the one hand, we saved some money doing it. But would rather spend the money and do the offsite. It would be fun to see everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">It\u2019s also a similar situation here. Main thing with working remote, the working remote itself is not so much an issue, but not seeing teammates kind of puts a pressure on the atmosphere a little bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. You want to do that periodically, right? You want to do leadership offsite and a whole company offsite once a year and these kinds of things. Not being able to do that is definitely a bummer. Yeah, it\u2019s definitely not cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">But anyway, I mean, these are minor complaints. Some of the industries that are directly impacted are like in a bad space. We\u2019re extremely lucky that we can continue, like continue working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For sure. What is it that you spend most of your time working on right now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">These days? I think there\u2019s two main focus areas for me in my day-to-day, and that is product and people. People and product. I should have said people first, because it\u2019s clearly more important. We have a head or a lead, like a VP or a head of some, or director for every department at ChartMogul, except for product. I lead our product team. It\u2019s four product managers and myself. So I\u2019m still heavily involved in product. Every other department has a leader that fully owns sales, owns marketing and owns customer success, owns finance, and creative team owns engineering, et cetera. I just have to give my input or weekly leadership meetings and one-on-ones, these kinds of things. But I don\u2019t have to run the day-to-day of any part of that business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">But the product part, I am quite heavily involved in. I do a lot of reviewing and even QA and stuff before releases and these things on the people side. Yeah, I mean, always looking about. Everyone on our leadership team is currently reading a book called Traction. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard of this book, but it\u2019s about the EOS, entrepreneurs operating system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">We\u2019re all reading it, and I think most of us are done by now. We\u2019re going to discuss, do we want to implement the EOS or some parts of it, or which parts of it then? It\u2019s just a way to run your business in an efficient way. Although you could come up with your own systems and processes and ways to run your business, it\u2019s a bit like buy versus build, right? The people that wrote this book, or the person, I guess, it\u2019s only one person, but the people that are behind Traction and the EOS, they\u2019ve spent a lot of time consulting and thinking about the best way to run a business. Whereas we, I spend a lot of our time, we spend our time thinking about just ChartMogul product and customers. We don\u2019t necessarily think: \u201cWhat\u2019s the best way to run a business?\u201d So if you can take some of these things that they\u2019ve thought long and hard about and implement them, you can definitely get some positives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Kind of think about that. It helps us scale a bit more in a bit more of an organized way, moving towards, like quarterly plannings for different teams and performance reviews and things like that. So yeah, definitely people and product, I guess. That\u2019s the answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">A previous guest on the show, David Henzel of MaxCDN is a huge fan of EOS. If you ask him what he would do if he\u2019d start any business again, it\u2019s always implementing EOS. And he\u2019s starting quite some businesses right now, all based on EOS. If you want any advice on it I can connect you both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Oh, yeah. We would love to. Yeah, for sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I even think he uses it in his coaching business now. He launched a coaching business called Up Coach. And I think that\u2019s also partly based in the US, but not sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I\u2019m definitely new to it, so I\u2019m not an expert. I\u2019m on my second run through it in order to make it stick, because there\u2019s a lot, it\u2019s pretty dense. There\u2019s a lot in there. Some of it we\u2019re kind of naturally doing already, but a lot of it we\u2019re not, but it\u2019s important. I like the idea it\u2019s about working on the business, not in the business. So I think by default, the trap is just to always work in the business, right? Work on computers, answer emails, answer Slack, do a bit of this, do a bit of that. But if you don\u2019t consciously step back and try to work on the business and, \u201cOkay, how are we actually working together?\u201d How is this actually going, now and again. At least that one quarter, it doesn\u2019t happen. So this is a good framework for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. We actually do that every two weeks. This afternoon we\u2019re at that again. We have a team meeting and then we write down what\u2019s not going well and what\u2019s going well. And then for the things that are not going well, we look for solutions and that\u2019s often changing a process somewhere or something. And we learn from the things that went well. It\u2019s a bit of a combination of being in the business, but a lot of it is working on the business as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Right, right. That\u2019s good. Yeah. Every two weeks is better, probably.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. It\u2019s quite often, I must say. But it\u2019s good to be close to reality when things happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Probably means Salesflare is better run than ChartMogul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Oh, that I don\u2019t know. I have no idea how ChartMogul is run. Making no judgements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Me neither, I\u2019m just kidding of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So what is it that you do actually next to work? You mentioned you\u2019re based in Seoul. Any fun stuff you do in Seoul, or are you into sports or something? You said you went into motorbiking, but not right now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Not anymore. And this is probably for the best. I had a German license, I was in Berlin before. But when you convert that into a Korean license, they dropped the motorbike from the license. If you want to ride a motorbike here in Korea, you have to take the test here in Korea. And that would be a whole adventure in itself, I think. I do take Korean classes, but I think taking the motorbike test would be interesting. So for now it\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">That was more back when I was in the UK. But I have a daughter here and I like to spend as much time as I can with her. So after work or on the weekends, I spend time with my daughter. Since this year, I haven\u2019t been able to travel, of course, internationally. So I\u2019ve been doing more road trips around Korea. A water park or beach, or something like that. She is five years old so she loves doing anything, basically. And then I like going to the gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s funny, it\u2019s one of those things. I have a younger brother, who\u2019s like 10 years, nine years younger to me. He started going recently and he\u2019s, \u201cThis is so much work, how can you like it?\u201d I was like, \u201cI think I started around nine years ago and I hated it, but you just keep going and it\u2019s a habit.\u201d I think about once you\u2019ve been doing it for five years, you start to really just love it. It\u2019s like a meditation for me. I just go there, relax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I don\u2019t really do much running or cardio. That would stress me out. But just weight lifting and stretching, it\u2019s very relaxing for me, I guess. I do that. We were chatting before we started recording that you had also visited, Seoul and the food here is excellent. Seoul has a lot to offer. Yeah, Seoul has a lot to offer in terms of food and places to go, and stuff like that. And yes, it\u2019s meeting friends after work and having some Korean barbeque, or whatever. It\u2019s a big city with a lot to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Having some Korean wheat beer with some soju in there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Mixing beer and soju.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">They often drop it in a beer no?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. They call it somaek. Your listeners who are not familiar, soju is like, I guess a rice wine, a bit like the Japanese sake, but it\u2019s the Korean equivalent, soju. And then the Korean word for beer is mekju. Somaek just means beer and soju mixed together. It\u2019s just a way to make beer stronger, basically. It\u2019s just a way to get yourself going faster, but it\u2019s a common thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. No, I remember my wife was there for a month. She did an exchange within her company. They have a department in Korea. Well actually, a company that they bought. And we would join these people then also, Korean barbeques and drinks and stuff. You have this idea of Asians, that they are a bit more, how can I say, held back or something? But, there was always a lot of atmosphere, especially helped with the beer and the soju, and the food was amazing. Of course, all these, for us Westerners, funny things about hierarchy that are not really as much present, at least not in Belgian culture. I know in Italy for instance, it\u2019s a bit more. But a really nice experience, really loved it. We\u2019d love to go back. How long are you there now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Let me think. About a year and a half now, yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">What made you decide to move to Seoul?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">As I said, I have a daughter and her mother\u2019s Korean. So we decided that we want to raise our daughter here. That was the main catalyst. But it\u2019s been great. I mean, it\u2019s one of the luckiest countries. I mean, this wasn\u2019t really in the decision making, but they\u2019ve dealt with this virus very well. You wear a mask everywhere and you have to follow a lot of rules. They check your temperature and they track your movements everywhere you go, and these kinds of things. But, they haven\u2019t had a full lockdown or something like that. So it\u2019s been good there and we\u2019re hiring some people here to build up a small cluster. We\u2019re pretty remote, but we\u2019ve got a cluster in Toronto, one in [inaudible 00:40:14] and now one here in Seoul, which is cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So, it\u2019s great. And I started taking some classes. I guess that\u2019s another thing that I do. I take two classes a week. It\u2019s not really enough to learn Korean quickly, probably take me five, 10 years at this rate, but it\u2019s good to get back to learning something, especially something that\u2019s way, way outside my comfort zone. I\u2019m typical English, British person who only speaks English and is really dumb when it comes to foreign languages. I really find the process a little bit hard. It\u2019s not something that comes naturally. It\u2019s like I have to force myself, but it\u2019s rewarding. I guess I\u2019ve been studying about seven, eight months now. It\u2019s rewarding to be able to use more and more. I can get by more and more in day to day life, so that\u2019s pretty fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Otherwise it\u2019s not super easy to get by in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I remember taking my phone and translating a lot of things with Google Translate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. When I first moved here, that was basically open every day on the phone, the Translate thing. These days, it\u2019s getting less and less I have to use it day to day. But the jump between being able to just get by and actually have a conversation is so extreme. So, with three or four months of study, you can learn enough to get by, but then learning enough to actually have a full-on conversation with a local would be like, I think two years of full time study. And obviously I have a full time job, so maybe it\u2019s five years of evening or morning, I do morning classes. I think it\u2019s a long way off, but it\u2019s fun. It\u2019s something to work at that\u2019s not purely SaaS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yes. I do my Duolingo every day. I don\u2019t know if we have Duolingo English-Korean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, it does. Yeah, I did that before I moved here. The Korean Duolingo course. It\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">You finished it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. I think Duolingo has different layers, right? Level one and they only have the initial level with the Korean one, so it doesn\u2019t go deeper. Maybe it\u2019s not as long. Which one are you doing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">My wife is Brazilian, so I\u2019m doing Portuguese and I am trying to complete level five on everything now. But it\u2019s a lot of work, especially because these skills, they often start cracking, so you need to redo them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Oh yeah. Yeah. Tell me about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I\u2019m already at it for two years and a half or something now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">There\u2019s a slight jealousy there of people from places like Belgium or Germany or Denmark or continental Europe where they all <a href=\"https:\/\/promova.com\/app\/english-language-learning-app\">speak English<\/a> plus they speak their own language. Plus they often also speak a bit of German, a bit of French, a bit of something. I don\u2019t know. Maybe they\u2019re just not as lazy as we are in England about this, or there\u2019s just more, I guess, more of a focus on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">More of a need. Imagine coming from a place like Belgium. In the Flemish speaking part, we are about six million. And then we can converse with the Netherlands, which are about, I don\u2019t know exactly, 15 million or something. So, Dutch is what we start with. Then when we are 10 years old, we start studying French, so we can speak with the people on the other side of the country and get a good job in the capital if you want. Then we start adding English when we\u2019re 14, because the rest of the world \u2013 sort of a way to communicate. Then we start adding German because we\u2019re 16. Because a very small part of the country also speaks German. And then, depending on the level of education you like, if you are a smart boy or a girl, then you go into things like Latin and Greek, because that\u2019s still a very traditional way of how things work. And then you can add on other languages if you like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I went studying in Italy, so I added Italian. Studied a bit of Spanish, but that\u2019s completely gone. And now, the added Portuguese is so I can speak with everyone when we go to Brazil, it\u2019s not because I wanted to learn more languages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. That\u2019s very good. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. If you are in Great Britain, why would you learn anything else? There\u2019s no real force there to make you do this, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. There\u2019s not a forcing mechanism. I think we were given French, German or Italian as the choice and I did Italian and then it\u2019s, I think, one hour a week. So, it\u2019s like one hour a week in a class of 30 kids with some homework, probably. Of course, I didn\u2019t learn Italian. There\u2019s still like a little bit I can remember, but then you don\u2019t learn. You don\u2019t learn the language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Parlo Italiano, or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah, it\u2019s a token. I can still remember how to order some red wine, something like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I will not ask you to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Yeah. Because it will sound funny. It will sound weird. It\u2019s just like a couple of sentences you learn. But anyway!<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">How\u2019s Seoul actually when you\u2019re working in tech? I\u2019m forgetting names now, but I had the co-founder of this chat messaging platform. I\u2019m going to do a quick search here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Oh, yeah. I think I know the one you mean. Sendbird?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Jeroen:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Sendbird, yes. It\u2019s been a long while. John came on the show and he told me a story about how he was the first startup in Korea to take investment outside of Korea, that there was really no such thing as startups. Nowadays, when we go to startup conferences, at least when we can, there\u2019s this Korean state fund that you could talk to that has enormous resources now. How is Korea exactly developing in their plans to become a sort of new tech center with startups?<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">I don\u2019t know. I think Sendbird is quite internationally focused, right? I\u2019ve seen them around. We used to be in the same building as them although we\u2019ve moved to a different one now. And I\u2019ve spoken to some people there but I mean I\u2019m not an expert on it. Korea has a very healthy domestic technology industry. So unlike Europe, where we use all the stuff that\u2019s built in the US and mostly Google products, Facebook products, Apple products, for our services here, they have a domestic company. So for search, they have Neighbor. For e-commerce, you don\u2019t use Amazon here. You use Coupang or Neighbor or something. I can\u2019t remember now. But I generally use Coupang. It\u2019s extremely good service. For tech, for mapping, they use KakaoMaps or Neighbor maps. Google Maps doesn\u2019t really work properly here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">And for messaging and social, use Kakao. So they have their own domestic stuff, which is cool. I mean, it\u2019s hard when you first come here. You have to learn how to use it, but they have their own domestic stuff. That means they have a very healthy technology industry versus and then a lot of smaller companies supporting that as well. So in terms of international SaaS startups, there are a few. We even have some customers here. They\u2019re pretty cool SaaS companies that use ChartMogul and have an international focus. I\u2019d say it\u2019s pretty healthy. I mean, loads of apps getting released and new services, like local scooter services. Like Lime, I use the scooters a lot. I would say Lime is one of the least good ones. I know in the US they have, in my opinion, I\u2019m not rubbishing Lime, but they have some local ones that seem to cost less and better quality scooters and stuff. So they\u2019re quite competitive in those sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Nick:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">So I\u2019d say this is a super high tech country or society. If you want to take a subway or a bus even, or a route, it\u2019s going to tell you down to the second when the bus is arriving, if it\u2019s full, if you\u2019ll be able to get a seat on the bus. 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