Hello, everyone. My guest today is Vassil Azarov. He's a growth marketing and startup event entrepreneurs.

Produced over 500 in-person and virtual events as well as built a network of 100,000 top tech entrepreneurs and marketers.

He's the founder of Growth Marketing Conference, one of the leading growth marketing events in the industry.

Vasile, you ready to take us to the top?

Yes, I'm ready. Let's do it.

So I have to, I just go right to the chase.

Conferences are very difficult. You and I both have a lot of friends that run conferences.

Some of them make a lot of money. Some of them are burning money like you wouldn't believe.

Give me a general sense of how long growth marketing conference has been around and why I get

into a space where there's a lot of unprofitable conferences in the first place? Sure. So growth marketing conference has been around for four years. We actually started as a startup

marketing conference and as a community of entrepreneurs and founders. And eventually when we

change the main name to growth marketing conference, then when we start seeing success, attracting larger companies,

product growth marketing managers from companies like Adobe, Google, and then this is the first

year when the conference actually became profitable. I personally wouldn't recommend anyone

to start a conference of the bat unless you're really

passionate about it and you're really thinking about it long term.

For me, it's bringing people together, connecting people and running events and something

that I would do without getting paid.

That's why I'm still in business.

So this year, meaning the event coming up here

in December 10th and 11th in San Francisco, that will be your first profitable growth marketing

conference since 2015. Oh, no. So we've always been profitable. So yeah, in 2015, it was our

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