Have conviction, your vision, keep going. He learned a lot from his furniture company in terms of

buying software and the difficulties with it back in 2011 after he graduated, teamed up with his

buddies, had his sights out for a big multimillion dollar first deal, hit the ground, run it and

learned the hard way. It wasn't going to be so easy, but they've had success. They've scaled

the company now over 650 people at App Direct, basically doing what a, you know, a HubSpot might do for marketing and sales. They're doing for e-commerce.

Four core products, many more, or sorry, beach heads, many products under each of those beach heads.

Again, measuring kind of gross market volume or gross transaction volume across their customers

using those products.

Super healthy economics, $245 million, bucks raised millions of paying customers.

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We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.

They 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.

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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Dan

Sacks. He's president and co-seo of AppDirect, the only

end-end cloud commerce platform for succeeding in the digital economy, which he co-founded in 2009 with his

partner. He and his co-founder dreamed to someday build a business worthy of the Inc 500 list,

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