had success in his first company since then the other three has all been kind of going into something

that's already launched optimizing growing it he's done that here at flash talking 2001 the company was

launched he joined call it two and a half three years ago the company has since broke 70 million

in revenue on call it 700 800 million bucks in total ad spend processed but bootstrap which i love

320 folks based in all around the world, but London is

home there with the holding company headquarters. TA owns a little bit more than half of it,

but John's enjoying building something that's part of a bigger infrastructure.

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies

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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone. My guest today is John Nardone. He's the CEO of a company called Flash

Talking. A first generation ad tech pioneer, Nardone served as founding board member of the

Internet Advertising bureau. And throughout his

career, he's earned recognition within the advertising community for his groundbreaking work at Pepsi,

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