Someone else already paid for the growth: management describes an outside party bearing the cost, risk, or work that exp
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2022 call → NOWe need to determine if management describes an outside party already bearing cost/risk/work of expanding the company's business, with the payoff mostly ahead. Key points from transcript: - T-Mobile partnership: T-Mobile will offer Ooma Telo to their wireless home internet customers. This is a new announcement. T-Mobile is doing the marketing and offering. The cost/risk? T-Mobile is using its own channels to sell Ooma Telo. The company says "T-Mobile will soon offer Ooma Telo" - it's real and in motion? They say "will soon offer" - it's upcoming. They also say "we will be launching this soon with them." So it's not yet fully underway? They say "T-Mobile will soon offer" - it's announced but not yet started. The payoff is ahead. But is the outside effort real and already in motion? They say "will soon offer" - it's not yet happening. They also say "we will know more in our next conference call because we will be launching this soon." So it's planned, not yet underway. That might be considered "planned, being explored, piloted, announced as a future direction" - so NO for that. - AirDial: New product, just introduced. They have strong customer interest. But no outside party bearing cost/risk yet. It's their own product development. - Largest customer: They are expanding with them. They say "we are now quite close to executing our full plan." They have launched service at approximately 30 new locations, and this month rolling out to several additional locations with plan to begin larger scale rollout early next year. The customer is a large national brand. But is the customer bearing cost/risk? The customer is buying service from Ooma. That's an ordinary customer. The expansion is Ooma's own effort to serve them. No indication that the customer is funding or building anything for Ooma. So that's not outside party bearing cost. - Channel partners: They have agents and resellers. They say "we increased the number of agents and resellers we work with." But that's just channel expansion. Are those partners bearing cost/risk? Typically resellers invest in selling, but management doesn't describe them as putting their own capital or people behind it in a way that expands Ooma's business faster than Ooma's spending. They mention channel sales at 40% of business sales. But no specific description of partners funding or building.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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INST · Q4 2017 → YESThe question is about whether management describes an outside party already bearing the cost, risk, or work of expanding the company's business, with the effort real and underway now, but the resultin...YES The transcript shows management describing the Paychex partnership as a white-label reseller arrangement where Paychex is already bearing the cost, risk, and work of expanding Instructure’s business by offering Bridge Learn to its 0.5 million customers (6 million users) using its own salesforce and customer base — a real, underway effort since the partnership was entered into and integration is already in progress. Management explicitly states Paychex owns the customers and will sell the product, while Instructure is only powering the backend, and the resulting revenue is still mostly ahead (they are optimistic about significant success by year-end). This matches 100% of the required criteria.
PLAB · Q2 2017 → YESThe question is about whether management describes an outside party already bearing the cost, risk, or work of expanding the company's business, with the effort real and underway now, but the resultin...YES The transcript shows management describing the DNP JV as an outside party already bearing the bulk of the expansion costs and risks for the new China facility (the $160 million Xiamen site, previously announced as a company-led greenfield build last August). Peter Kirlin notes they will "utilize all cash held in Taiwan and greater reduced to risk of ramping of our new factory in China," while Sean Smith confirms they are "sharing that total investment of 160 million as we in essence have a 50-50 partnership, however we will consolidate it" and will "share equitably the startup cost.
YUM · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management describes an outside party already bearing the cost, risk, or work of expanding the company's business, with the effort real and underway now, but the resultin...YES The transcript shows management describing real, ongoing outside efforts by franchisees and partners already bearing the cost, risk, and work of expansion. Franchisees are actively spending their own capital to open units (e.g., 482 net new units YTD vs. 317 last year; KFC opening nearly 200 2Q units; Pizza Hut 6% net new unit growth; Taco Bell 9 international units), with the company 97% franchised and on track for 98%. These efforts are already in motion and contributing to current results, while management highlights acceleration and future ramp (e.g.