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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1025 Expecting Mom Quits $150k+ Corporate, Launches Soap Line

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:06.9

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

0:16.1

insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million.

0:23.6

I had no money when I started the company.

0:25.6

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

0:29.6

We're a bit strapped.

0:30.6

We have like 22,000 customers.

0:33.6

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

0:38.6

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

0:43.6

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

0:48.6

Hello, everybody.

0:49.6

My guest today is Stacey Hamales.

0:51.9

She is the CEO and founder of a company called Vilea Soap, which is a natural, Greek-inspired, small-batch skincare and candleline based in Chicago.

1:00.7

Her products are made with high-quality Greek olive oil and other natural and effective ingredients that have been used in Greek apothecary.

1:06.9

Did I say that right?

1:08.7

Apothecary.

1:09.5

Boom.

1:09.9

See, she's already teaching me.

1:10.8

I love it.

1:11.2

For thousands of years, every purchase helps support clean water project.

1:15.8

Stacey, are you ready to take us to the top?

1:18.7

Yes, I am.

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