start a business earlier, although it sounds like he had a lot of success. And as an enterprise sales,

we're at building up a nice little nest egg. He then said, you know what? I want my nest egg to become

a little bit more risky. I'm going to throw some of that money in 2015 at, again, the new company

7th Sense, which is helping folks understand better times to send their emails to increase open,

click through, and conversion rates.

He scaled it to about 10 grand per month in December 2016, grew well over 3x year-over-year,

now doing over 30 grand per month across about 150, 36 customers paying $225 a month,

too early to get too deep on unit economic stuff, but his team of three in Northern Virginia growing the company.

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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 five 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's episode. Hello everyone.

My guest today is Mike Donnelly.

He's the CEO and founder of Seventh Sense, which is a system that optimizes the timing

and frequency of email for sales marketing professionals.

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