1120 He Helped TED Community Connect, Now at $12m in ARR

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

introNetworks deployed the first social network for the 2003 TED Conference. Mark has successfully created hundreds of introNetwork Communities for global organizations to make a cultural change in how they connect with their audiences. As the co-founder of Wavefront in 1984, Mark helped develop Maya, the first commercial 3D animation system.

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0:00.0	He launched his company back in 2003, now scaled over 50 customers, 150,000 seats,
0:06.3	1 million in revenue growing between 15, or around 15% year over year.
0:11.6	Healthy model, each company's paying call it 20 grand per month because of how many seats
0:16.2	they're signing up for.
0:17.1	They're helping really keep folks connected, whether it's an early TED event or any other
0:22.5	kinds of companies they're working with.
0:24.9	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:31.4	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts,
0:40.3	and other insider information that creates business news headlines.
0:45.3	We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million.
0:48.3	I had no money when I started the company.
0:50.3	It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped.
0:55.0	We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,
1:03.2	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host,
1:09.3	Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:12.8	Hello, everybody. My guest today is Mark Sylvester. He is the CEO of intro networks,
1:19.0	which is the deployed the first social network for the 2003 TED conference. That's what obviously
1:23.1	the tech does. He successfully created hundreds of intro network communities for global
1:26.7	organizations to make a cultural change in how they connect with their audiences. As the co-founder of Wavefront in
1:32.5	1984, Mark helped develop Maya, the first commercial 3D animation system. All right, Mark,
1:38.8	are you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, let's do it. So is this like a more customizable
1:43.2	kind of API version of a meetup group?
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