Ep 66 - Anyone can be an MVNO with Gigs (Hermann Frank)
Telco in 20
<p>Telcos make it hard for enterprise customers to negotiate deals for affordable connectivity. A few innovative tech firms are building their businesses around making things easier. One of them is Gigs, which buys pre-negotiated connectivity and offers easy APIs to allow enterprise software developers to create and sell their own voice and data plans. In this episode, Hermann Frank, co-founder and CEO of Gigs, tells us how the idea for the company was born, why customers love it, and how the public cloud makes it all possible.</p>
<ul>
<li>How GIGS simplifies the process of buying and selling data plans [04:09];</li>
<li>The problems it solves for its customers [05:14];</li>
<li>How Gigs reduced a process that took 15 months down to 15 minutes [06:18];</li>
<li>Why public cloud, API-based solutions are the future [09:40].</li>
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<p><strong>Links and Resources</strong></p>
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<li>Learn more about <a href="https://gigs.com/" rel="nofollow">Gigs</a></li>
<li>TechCrunch wrote an article on Gigs and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/21/a-stripe-for-phone-plans-gigs-raises-20m-to-help-any-company-be-an-mvno/" rel="nofollow">how it recently raised $20M</a></li>
<li>Take a look at <a href="https://www.totogi.com/" rel="nofollow">Totogi’s public cloud-native, API-based solutions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.telcodr.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Gigs-Emoji-1.jpg" rel="nofollow">Check out Gigs emoji mascot</a>—don’t you just love it? Hermann has a pair of sneakers with the mascot.</li>
<li>I love sneakers too—I have a 5+ pair collection of <a href="https://www.goldengoose.com/us/en/ls/women/sneakers/mid-star" rel="nofollow">Golden Goose Mid-Stars</a>. They’re made for skateboarding, or in my case, delivering MWC keynotes. My most recent pair has a pink sole! Love it.</li>
<li>As a foodie, I just love the idea of Gig’s Table. It makes me think of that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UeNQlmxEkQ" rel="nofollow">great dining scene</a> from the 1996 movie, <i>Big Night</i>.</li>
<li>And this is not a cooking scene, but it’s a hilarious sketch from <i>Saturday Night Live </i>about ordering <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-D0jc17D0" rel="nofollow">lobster in a diner</a>. If you love <i>Les Miserables</i>, you’ll love this sketch!</li>
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<p><strong>This week’s guest</strong><br><strong>About Hermann Frank </strong></p>
<p>Hermann Frank is the co-founder and CEO of Gigs, the world's first telecom-as-a-service platform that enables companies to quickly and easily launch their own mobile service while retaining full control over branding and pricing. Prior to Gigs, Frank worked as a startup entrepreneur, consultant and for the Fraunhofer Institute, among others. Hermann Frank studied business administration at Maastricht University (Netherlands) and at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan, Italy. </p>
<p><strong>Podcast Credits</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Executive Producer and Host: Danielle Royston, TelcoDR</li>
<li>Senior Producer: Lindsay Grubb, TillCo Media</li>
<li>Editor/Marketing: Alisa Jenkins, Springboard Marketing</li>
<li>Editing: Andrew Condell</li>
<li>Associate Producer: Kriselda Dionisio</li>
<li>Music: Dyami Wilson</li>
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