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Hello, everyone, my guest today is Emmerich Ernu.

He started his career in 1996 as a business lawyer in Washington, D.C., and then launched his first startup in France in 2000.

After three semi-failed SaaS projects in the social media space, he finally got traction with his company, Agora Pulse.

A social media management software launched in 2012. He grew it to $5 million in annual occurring revenue and it's growing at 80%

year over year. Amark, are you ready to take us to the top? I am, definitely. Well, I think you're

much cooler as a SaaS CEO than a lawyer. So congratulations. I think too. Yeah, agreed on

that one. So the company, just to be clear, the revenue number, you finished 2017 at a run rate of about $5 million.

Was that accurate?

Absolutely.

Okay. And let's get more of the backstory now. What does the company do and how do you make money? Is it pure SaaS?

It is pure SaaS. It's a social media management software. So most of your listeners will be familiar with Hootsweet.

So it's like it's a competitor to HootSuite and many others.

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