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Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Miles is CEO & Co-founder of BELAY. Bryan (alongside his wife, Shannon) leads a US-based virtual solutions company that has over 550 people on payroll, all working from home, virtually. Prior to starting BELAY, Bryan worked for companies in the tech and construction industries. Bryan obtained his B.A. in Business from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, OH, which is where he met his wife, Shannon, who also co-founded BELAY.
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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 two point seven million. |
| 0:23.6 | I had no money when I started the company. |
| 0:25.6 | It was a hundred and sixty million dollars 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 five million downloads in a very short amount of time, 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. |
| 0:48.5 | Good morning, everyone. My guests today are Brian and Shannon Miles. |
| 0:53.3 | Brian is a CEO and co-founder of Belay, and along with |
| 0:56.3 | his wife, they leave this U.S.-based virtual solutions company that has over 550 folks on |
| 1:01.5 | payroll, all working from home totally virtually. Before starting the company, Brian worked for |
| 1:06.8 | companies in the tech and construction industries. He obtained his, obtained his BA in business from Mount Vernon and in Mount Vernon, obviously, Ohio, |
| 1:14.2 | where he met his wife, Shannon, who also co-founded the company. |
| 1:17.2 | Brian, Shannon, are you guys ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:19.6 | We are. |
| 1:20.3 | All right. |
| 1:20.6 | All right. |
| 1:21.3 | So who on earth graduate school and says, |
| 1:24.4 | I want to go manage 550 virtual assistants that I'm never going to see |
| 1:27.9 | and they're all over the place. |
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