He was a refugee. He's been through a war. He went through the whole thing with Ukraine.

Co-founded a temple monster grew up to $25 million in revenue in 2013.

Sold it for $100 million to private equity firm.

$45 million of that was cash up front.

The rest, he's working right now through an earnout.

While he's doing that, though, he launched another company called Webliam,

which is essentially subsidizing the creation of websites for folks and then upselling a $10 per month charge in terms of a SaaS model. So they've now got about $3,250 people paying $10 a month

for their service. This is the top alternative values right now with their team of over 50

people based in Kiev. 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, everyone.

My guest today is David Braun.

He was born and the USSR, got a war, was in a war there, was a refugee moved to

Ukraine and then co-founded Templetmonster.com. He then grew that to a hundred million,

a hundred million dollar company and sold it out to a private equity firm. Since then,

he started a company called WebLean to build a McDonald's in the web design industry.

He's married with four kids, two wives, three dogs, five homes,

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