Analysis of Operator

1. Randa Sakallah
randas

3. Timeline

4. Timeline
● Raised $10M Series A -- April 2015
● Public launch -- November 2015
● UberRush partnership -- December 2015

5. The Secret Sauce

6. “I have a guy for that”

9. “Operator converges around three ideas: messaging as the
platform for buying things, a logistics layer for moving goods,
and the fact that everyone has a smartphone.”
-- Tech Insider

10. Competition

11. Magic
● Texting concierge
● Real people, not AI
● Links to Stripe for payment

12. Facebook’s M
● AI combined with real people
● Beta testing in Bay Area

13. Prediction

14. Prediction
● Facebook’s M will beat out Operator and Magic
● 800 million people already use Messenger

15. Questions?