1099 Salt Lake Event Management Company Breaks $4m in ARR, 30,000 Paid Events
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Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Kreg is committed to creating extraordinary experiences. He is best known for founding SpinGo, a robust event platform powering 5,500 entertainment apps and delivering live event content for more than 7 million events nationwide. SpinGo is dedicated to providing integrated solutions for its 350,000+ registered event makers, enabling them to efficiently list, promote, and optimize their events. SpinGo was named Internet Company of the Year, Tech Startup of the Year, and Fastest Growing Tech Company of the Year. In April 2017, he founded Aktify, a customer acquisition engine that qualifies and reactivates prospects through goodwill experience marketing.
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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. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello, everybody. My guest today is Craig Peeler. |
| 0:51.1 | He's committed to creating an extraordinary experiences no matter where you are |
| 0:54.8 | related to events. He's best known for founding Spingo, robust event platform, powering 5500 entertainment |
| 1:00.0 | apps and delivering live event content for more than 7 million events worldwide. Spingo is dedicated |
| 1:05.3 | to providing integrated solutions for its 350,000 registered event makers, enabling them to |
| 1:10.7 | efficiency list, promote, and optimize their events. |
| 1:14.2 | Craig, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:16.1 | Great. Thanks, Nathan. Good to be here with you. |
| 1:17.9 | You bet. So we talked before the call about you sponsoring Silicon Slopes event, which is not, you know, |
| 1:24.0 | that doesn't have the cool factor of a rock star, you know, going on tour. Who do you work with more general events or kind of artists on tour? |
| 1:31.1 | More general events, actually. We found there's a lot of opportunity to innovate and |
| 1:35.8 | add optimization to fairs, festivals, comic cons, things that a lot of times people don't |
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