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🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Conor Lee is the founder and CEO of HipLead. The company helps leading B2B companies scale their outbound sales with high quality lead generation outbound campaigns. Before founding HipLead, Conor founded several other companies including TellFi which was in the Y Combinator, Winter 2011 batch. Prior to that, he worked as a lobbyist in statewide political campaigns.
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0:00.0 | commit to one thing and go for it. He launched Hipplead group to about 100 grand per month in |
0:03.3 | revenue, but was unhappy because it was a combination of service-based revenue and high-churned |
0:07.0 | SaaS revenue. He said, you know what? Let's take what we've learned from these, you know, |
0:10.0 | 50 or 60 or, you know, 200-ish customers and kind of codify it into his new product. Go Sona. |
0:15.7 | It's a play on persona, really a place for salespeople or sales seems to manage all of their people data. |
0:22.5 | Interesting space, hypercompetitive. |
0:23.2 | We'll see what happens. |
0:25.8 | Launched in 2012, 17 people all around the country. |
0:28.5 | Currently, about 150 grand in total revenue. |
0:30.6 | That's up from about 120 grand just a year ago. |
0:34.7 | 50 customers paying about 3 grand per month, 200,000 bucks raised. |
0:40.8 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
0:46.5 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information |
0:52.3 | that creates business news headlines. |
0:56.0 | We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
0:59.0 | I had no money when I started the company. |
1:01.0 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
1:04.0 | We're a bit strapped. |
1:05.0 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
1:09.0 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling |
1:15.3 | us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
1:18.5 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
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