4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Markus Linder is the chief executive officer and co-founder of SMARTASSISTANT, the leading global technology provider for Digital Advice and Guided Selling technologies for online retailers, manufacturers and service providers. Over the last 11 years under Markus guidance, SMARTASSISTANT has grown internationally, with offices at several locations in three continents.
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0:00.0 | be more persistent and he was. This agency was growing, growing, growing. Then in 2014, |
0:04.7 | they turned on a SaaS product, did a small venture around for about three million bucks, |
0:08.0 | raised additional six million recently, so nine million total raised. Smart assistant is basically |
0:12.2 | helping folks, whether it's online or banks, etc., have conversations and do kind of need-based |
0:18.1 | or questions-based selling and support with folks. |
0:21.5 | Scaling and making teams significantly more efficient. |
0:23.6 | They've got a team of 100 people based between New York City, London, Poland, Austria, |
0:27.3 | and other remote locations. |
0:28.4 | Over 100 customers paying north of 10 grand per month, so well north of 12 million bucks in AR, |
0:33.4 | but south of 50, they hoped across that maybe in the next couple of quarters, |
0:37.0 | growing 100 |
0:37.5 | or 200 percent year over year. |
0:38.9 | So healthy growth. |
0:40.6 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies |
0:46.6 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
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0:58.0 | that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to |
1:03.3 | $2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of |
1:08.8 | any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:14.7 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling |
1:20.6 | us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
1:23.8 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
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