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

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

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

I had no money when I started the company.

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

We're a bit strapped.

We have like 22,000 customers.

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

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

Hello, everyone, my guest today is Josh Tillman.

He began building his company Dial Source in 2005 while studying at the University

of California, Davis, to seal the gap between business and consumers through analytics and

automation. The engineering firm has since changed the way modern enterprises communicate,

earning product of the year honors in 2016 and 2017. He received the Sacramento Business Journal's

40 Under 40 Award in 2016.

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

I am.

All right.

Tell us about dial source.

What do you do and how do you make money?

Sure.

Well, first I'd say we are a group of professional nerds.

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