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insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

I had no money when I started the company.

It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.

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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Ivan Smolnikov.

He's the CEO of SmartCat, and he has over 10 years of experience in

linguistic technologies and services. He's now focused on building an operational and operating

and payment platform for the global translation industry through the company by enabling

collaborative workflow and automating hiring and settlements for all marketplace participants.

All right, Ivan, are you ready to take us to the top?

Thanks for inviting me.

Of course.

So language translation and translation is notoriously a tough space.

Tell me more about how you're attacking it.

Actually, you know, it's a good question because I've been in this business for 14 years almost and before that I was building the more traditional company.

And now I'm building the platform where everyone actually can hire freelancers from around the globe directly.

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