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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Luke Beatty serves as the Chairman and CEO of Brandfolder, a digital asset management platform located in Denver. Prior to that, he served as the President of Media Brands at Verizon/ AOL. Luke founded Associated Content, Inc. in 2004 and served as its President & CEO. He sold that company to Yahoo in 2010. Prior thereto, Luke served on the executive management team of WAND, Inc. His expertise is in contextual advertising models, online media collection, and distribution strategies. In his free time, Luke is a youth lacrosse coach and fly fishes around the world. He holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Connecticut College.

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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, major outlets like Inc are calling

0:40.4

us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's

0:46.3

today's episode. Good morning, everybody. My guest this morning is Luke Beatty. He serves as the

0:52.8

chairman and CEO of Brand Folder,

0:54.9

a digital asset management platform located in Denver. Prior to that, he served as the president

0:59.4

of media brands at Verizon slash AOL. He co-founded or sorry, founded associate content in 2004

1:05.4

and served as its president and CEO and sold that company to Yahoo in 2010. Before that, he served on the executive

1:12.1

management team at WAND Inc. His expertise is in contextual advertising models, online media

1:18.0

collection, and distribution strategies. In his free time, Luke is the youth lacrosse coach and fly

1:22.9

fishes around the world. Luke, are you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, let's do it.

1:27.1

All right. So tell us what brand folder does and what's your revenue model. How do you make

1:30.7

money? Yeah, so it's a, it's a very traditional SaaS model, and it's a platform that allows

1:36.5

brands to manage their digital assets and track the behavior and analyze the use of their digital

1:43.7

assets across the web.

1:46.0

And are you, what kind of space are you playing in enterprise, small business, midmarket?

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