979 How Funnel.io 3x ARR to $2.1m in Last 12 Months

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Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fredrik Skantze is CEO and co-founder of Funnel.io. Prior to starting Funnel he was co-founder of the automotive e-tailer Autoquake in London and worked as Product Director for mobile internet pioneer Openwave in San Francisco. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a Masters Degree in Engineering from MIT.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,
0:38.6	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.7	Hello, everyone.
0:49.7	My guest today is Frederick Scans.
0:52.3	He's the CEO and co-founder of funnel.io. Prior to starting
0:56.2	funnel, he was co-founder of the automotive e-tailor AutoQuake in London and worked as product
1:00.3	director for mobile internet pioneer open wave in San Francisco. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a
1:05.5	master's degree in engineering from MIT. Frederick, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:10.3	Yep. All right, you're like the dual
1:11.6	threat, engineering and business from some of the best schools in the world. Your mind is a unique one.
1:16.5	What's funnel.com. I.O. doing? How do you make money? Yeah, so basically the insight that we had
1:21.6	was that when you're, if you're an e-commerce company or an online marketer, a lot of companies that can help you make ads and optimize ads.
1:31.3	But in the end, when it comes to like really figuring out how things are going,
1:35.3	people are sitting with a spreadsheet.
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