Sramana Mitra: How many enterprise customers were you able to gather as paying customers to get to this million dollar annual revenue? Robert Hoehn: I think it was about 50 enterprise customers. Sramana Mitra: How were you selling? Were you selling on the phone? How were you going to market? Robert Hoehn: I did it
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Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a few more onion-peeling questions here to understand the model. It’s quite complex and the healthcare system is really a nightmare. What is the monthly fee that you charge for being a member in your network? John Palumbo: Depending on the program, it could be anywhere from $14.95 a month
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Sramana Mitra: What was the financial framework of this government relationship? Robert Hoehn: Actially, we did most of it for free. Sramana Mitra: How were you getting by? How did you sustain the company? Robert Hoehn: We put a small cash infusion in to start off. We quickly pivoted to try to sell to enterprise customers
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Sramana Mitra: Of the four million members, what percentage comes through these corporate accounts? John Palumbo: We run at about a 60/40 split between sponsored population and Direct to Consumer. Sramana Mitra: Do you remember if the hospital systems were in the sponsored program or direct to consumer? John Palumbo: Sponsored program. Sramana Mitra: Hospitals
Sramana Mitra: At what point did you make the next major strategic move and at what scale were you at that point? Robert Hoehn: Around late 2008, we were getting a lot of requests for the idea of having a comment in a survey that could be displayed to other survey respondents and they could