joined Verblio back a couple years ago, found that in 2011. Again, big marketplace helping freelancers

connect with folks that need great writing. They also do other services like video. Today, serving

about 800 companies and customers doing about 260 grand per month in revenue. They pay out 50% of that,

obviously to the freelancers. They keep 50% margin for themselves to reinvest it back in the company

because they are bootstrapped and cash-fulitive team of 12 in Boulder and remote locations.

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, everybody.

My guest today is Steve Pockross.

He's a CEO of a company called Verblio, a leading content creation marketplace platform.

He previously served as VP of Business Development Strategy at Crowdsourcing Pioneer LiveOps

and held leadership roles at Tendro, Western Union, and multiple startups and

nonprofits. He's got an MBA from Kellogg and a BA from Wesleyan University. Steve, are you

ready to take us to the top? I'm ready. All right, verblio, tell us what it does and what's the

business model. How do you make money? Sure. We are a marketplace-based content creation

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