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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Blachman is the COO of Tophatter, the world's fastest, most entertaining marketplace for mobile shoppers, where he oversees ongoing business operations within the company. Previously, he was the CEO of GET ME IN! Blachman has both a B.A. and M.S. degree from Stanford University.

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody. I wanted to just quickly remind you if you love B-2-B SaaS and you're loving all these CEOs I have on, remember, you can get all of their data in a big, beautiful spreadsheet at getlatka.com. That's G-E-T-L-A-T-K-A dot com. So I hope you're enjoying the month. I love December. I love the holidays.
0:21.5	And here is our program for today.
0:24.5	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:35.8	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.
0:45.3	We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:48.3	I had no money when I started the company.
0:50.3	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars, which is the size of any IPOs.
0:53.3	We're a bit strapped. We're bootstrapped.
0:54.7	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:58.6	With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
1:07.8	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:12.5	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Andrew Blackman. He's the CEO of a company called Top Hatter,
1:17.1	the world's fastest, most entertaining marketplace for mobile shoppers, where he oversees
1:20.8	ongoing business operations within the company. Previously, he was the CEO of Get Me In. Blackman
1:26.3	has both a BA and MS degree from Stanford University.
1:29.5	Andrew, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:31.3	Sure.
1:31.8	All right.
1:32.1	What's Top Pattern?
1:33.0	How do you make money?
1:33.7	What's the business model?
1:34.7	Yeah, so Top Patter is a mobile discovery shopping app.
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