This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got

filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other

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.

We're a bit strapped.

We have like 22,000 customers.

With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

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

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is John Lemp.

He's an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up

into multi-million dollar businesses and all with zero dollars in funding. He graduated from the

Rochester Institute of Technology with the Bachelor's of Science and Information Technology.

In 2013, he founded Rev Content, a content recommendation network. The company has grown into

one of the largest native and content recommendation companies in the world, powering over 250 billion content recommendations per month.

John, are you ready to take us to the top? Sure, let's do it. All right. I love this. No funding.

Now, are you still bootstrapped or have you raised for Rev Content?

Yeah, we're bootstrapped all the way. Good. Okay, so tell us what the company does and what's your business model. How do you make money?

Well, we actually, we power advertising, content recommendations for major media sites.

So, you know, typically, you know, we work with sites like Inc, Fast Company, Newsweek, CBS.

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