991 He's Built 400+ Chatbots Making $800k in The Process

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Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

"Andrew started a $30M company built on email marketing when email marketing was just getting started. Many know Andrew from his company Mixergy, where he has interviewed over 1,500 entrepreneurs and startup founders, such as the founders of Airbnb, Twitch, Groupon and LinkedIn. In recent years, he has been an angel investor in two of the early chat messaging platform companies (Manychat & Assist) which eventually lead him to build Bot Academy.

Bot Academy is an online program that teaches people how to create marketing chat bots, enabling companies to reach potential customers via Facebook Messenger instead of email. With email on the decline and chat apps on the rise, Bot Academy teaches how to build successful marketing campaigns using Messenger. The skills learned at Bot Academy help graduates build consulting companies that build chat bots for their clients or help marketers enhance their email campaigns with Messenger marketing messages."

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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 2.7 million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was $160 million, 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 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling
0:40.4	us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.6	Hello, everyone, my guest today is Andrew Warner.
0:51.8	He started a $30 million company built on email marketing back when
0:55.5	email marketing was just getting started. Many of you know Andrew from his company Mixergy and
1:00.5	where he's interviewed over 1,500 entrepreneurs and startup founders such as the founders of Airbnb,
1:06.3	Twitch, Groupon, and LinkedIn. Now, what you might not know about Andrew is in recent years, he's been an
1:11.7	angel investor in two of the early chat messaging platform companies. That's many chat and assist,
1:17.3	which eventually led him to build Bot Academy that we're going to talk about today. Andrew,
1:21.7	are you ready to take us to the top? Oh, yeah. It's always fun for me to interview you,
1:24.9	just because our backstory, and I've told you this many times. You know, my first call ever as an entrepreneur in my dorm room was this guy, Andrew Warner, who I found a mixer interview, sold, you know, you built a company to $30 million. You sold it a lot of success.
1:44.8	Why chatbots?
1:47.3	Because I remember when a friend of mine from school came to the 12th floor of the 575 building in Manhattan.
1:54.6	He looked around and he goes, this whole floor is yours?
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