1074 I left Wall Street trenches to do Email Business Intelligence

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Michael Johnston is founder of Notablist.com, a competitive intelligence platform for email marketers. Prior to Notablist, Michael was VP of Technology at Critical Mention, where he led development of the firm's broadcast monitoring platform. Prior to his involvement with startups, Michael spent a decade in the Wall Street trenches.

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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.
0:49.4	My guest today is Michael Johnson.
0:51.2	He's the founder of Notablest.com,
0:53.4	a competitive intelligence platform for
0:55.4	email marketers. Michael, are you ready to take us to the top? Yes, I am, Nathan. Thanks for
1:00.4	having me on. All right. Yeah, so you go from, you know, the ditches in Wall Street to email
1:05.9	marketing intelligence. How does that work? I think it stems from boredom.
1:11.8	If you're a startup mentality type of person working in a very rigid corporate environment
1:17.2	just isn't going to work for you.
1:19.1	You get on edge and eventually you become bored and leave,
1:23.2	and that's what I did.
1:23.9	I left for the startup world.
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