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Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation
With Gen Z rising, expect more urban retail spaces to become experience-focused venues accessed via smartphone apps.
What started out as a single automated ping pong facility has transformed into a sports-tech company in which we are franchising the PingPod brand and licensing the PodPlay system. Five years in, with dozens of locations and hundreds of thousands of reservation hours under our belt, we feel comfortable saying that the operating model works as intended. Since we launched PingPod, more than 100,000 customers have signed up and more than 260,000 hours of ping pong have been played at our Pods, connecting players with friends both new and old in their own communities.
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