David Silberman

David Silberman is co-founder and co-CEO of PingPod [1][2], a table tennis facilities provider in the United States [3]. He stated that his mission at PingPod is to make table tennis more accessible to a greater number of people [3]. Silberman holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from the Wisconsin School of Business [13] and a Master's Degree in Applied Securities Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison [12]. He also studied at Università Bocconi in 2013 [14]. Prior to PingPod, Silberman worked in financial services, including as an Equity Research Associate at UBS from 2016 to 2019 [7] and in summer analyst roles at Merrill Lynch, The Benchmark Company, and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney [9][10][11]. He also serves as Chief Financial Officer of PodPlay Technologies [6].

Founded

• CPingPod

Insights & ideas

David Silberman frames PingPod's core innovation as solving the economic problem that has historically made recreational venues unviable, namely high labor costs, by removing on-site staff entirely through technology such as access control hardware integrated with reservations, security monitoring teams, instant replay, and scoreboard tracking [1]. He argues that low supply of urban table tennis venues was never a demand problem, since demand exists among people who grew up playing casually, but an operating model problem, and that breaking large clubs into smaller, accessible two-to-five table units modeled like Starbucks or Subway density solves this [1]. He also describes his approach as "gamifying" a 150-year-old sport that had seen little innovation, layering technology onto a simple original idea to elevate consumer experience [1]. Silberman credits his co-founders and CTO's mobile technology background, from Nike and Equinox, for turning his initial concept into a scalable, fundable technology company [1].

Experience

1. Co-Founder & Co-CEO

   PingPodAug 2025 to Present
2. Co-Founder & CFO

   PingPodMay 2019 to Present
3. Chief Financial Officer

   PodPlay TechnologiesJul 2023 to Present
4. Equity Research Associate

   UBSJun 2016 to May 2019
5. Equity Research Summer Associate

   UBSMay 2015 to Jul 2015
6. PWM Summer Analyst

   Merrill LynchJun 2014 to Aug 2014
7. Equity Research Intern

   The Benchmark CompanyJul 2013 to Aug 2013
8. Summer Intern

   Morgan Stanley Smith BarneyJun 2012 to Oct 2012

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison · Master's Degree, Applied Securities Analysis2014 - 2016
• Wisconsin School of Business · Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and Finance2010 - 2014
• Università Bocconi2013 - 2013

Media & appearances

• $50M Man | "We Run With 0 Employees & Make Way More Money" | David ...

  David Silberman discusses how he founded PingPod, a technology-infused table tennis facility concept, after having an epiphany walking through New York's East Village in 2019. He explains how the company uses technology including instant replay, scoreboard tracking, and security monitoring to enable autonomous operation without on-site employees, allowing them to scale to 20 locations while maintaining strong unit economics. Silberman describes raising $10 million in venture funding by proving product-market fit and solving the labor cost problem that had previously made recreational venues economically unviable.

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