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insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

I had no money when I started the company.

It was a hundred and sixty million dollars 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 Jonathan Deutsch. She's the founder and lead developer of Tumult Hype.

He's always had one foot in the programming world and the other in the visual arts.

He previously was an engineering manager at Apple on various macOS projects.

He was born in St. Louis, educated at Purdue and now resides in San Francisco.

Jonathan, are you ready to take us to the top?

Absolutely.

All right.

Tell us about Tumalt.

What does it do and how do you make money?

Okay. So our company was founded with the idea of doing tools for graphic designers to make

animated web content. So we have an app called Hight and it lets people range text, images,

video and animate them with a keyframe-based timeline interface.

And you can add interactivity. So when you click or drag, you can get all kinds of things to happen.

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