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Hello, everyone. My guest today is Liz Pierce. She is the chief executive officer at Liquid Planner, the fast-growing Seattle-based maker of predictive project management technology. She is responsible for the company's overall vision, strategic direction, and growth. She's an entrepreneurial leader with more than 15 years of marketing, product management, and technology leadership experience. She started

her career at Liquid Planner as director of marketing in 2007 before being named C-O-O in 2011 and CEO in

August of 2012. Liz, are you ready to take us to the top? I'm ready. Awesome. So you told us a great

story back in episode 434. That was almost a year ago today about kind of how you

made a transition to C-O-O and then why it made sense for you to come in as CEO. So we won't

focus this episode on that. You guys will go back and listen to Nathanlaka.com forward slash the top

434 to hear that story. It's an amazing one from Liz. But Liz, what I want to pick up on is

updates from last time. So, you know, last time

you had articulated, you guys had passed 1,800 customers, about 13 million bucks raised,

you know, Arpoo's annually around the 10 grand mark. We're going to talk about all that and more.

But first, for folks that are not familiar with Liquid Planner, how would you describe the platform?

What do you do and what's your business model? Sure. So a lot of people are either accidentally or intentionally project

managers in their job. And most people have used Microsoft projects somewhere along the way. So

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