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It was $160 million, 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 Aki Bolog.

He's a software engineer and a VC associate at Open View Venture

Partners along with director sales and marketing at Infini, D.B, co-founder and CEO currently at Market

Muse. Aki, are you ready to take us to the top? Yes, absolutely. It's pleasure to be here.

You bet. So is MarketMuse your sole focus right now, or are you still dabbling in sales and marketing and VC stuff at OpenView?

Yeah. So I actually, I was a VC associate at Open View a few years ago. Technically now I'm a venture partner with Wolfram Ventures where we look at basically AI investments. But MarketBue's is my sole focus. So venture for me is kind of a

nights and weekends hobby. But at MarketMuse, I'm the original founder, I'm now a co-founder and CEO.

I run the sales strategy for the most part, fundraising and so on. So it consumes my time for sure. But

you know, on the weekend, who doesn't like looking at venture deals? And tell us what Market

Muse does and what's the revenue model. Is it a pure play SaaS option or what? Yes, it's actually

somewhat of a hybrid. So what we do is we use AI to accelerate content creation. So

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