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

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.

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone, my guest today is Ross Piquette.

He's the founder and CEO of Maripost,

ranked as one of North America's fastest growing tech companies by Deloitte. After starting the company in 2011, he's grown

the company from a one-man operation in his apartment to an international business valued at

160 million United States dollars in just under six years. Ross, are you ready to take us to the

top? I am for sure. All right, first of all I'm on numbers guys.

So when I see 160 in the bio, obviously I like numbers that turns me on.

Was that like your last valuation or where did you get that value from?

Yeah, that was our last valuation that we did.

I brought in a couple partners last summer, two private equity firms and two family offices.

So that was really what they came up with. So I want to, I'm going to, we'll dive in that more in a second. But before we do that, tell us what the

company does and what's your revenue model. How to make money? Sure. Yeah. So essentially we're

an email service provider. So we started off in the email space, delivering campaigns,

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