4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Adam Robinson is a SaaS entrepreneur who lives in Austin, TX.
After spending 10 years on Wall Street trading credit default swaps at Lehman Brothers, Adam started his first startup called Robly Email Marketing. Robly was bootstrapped, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction in 2017, the company distributed mid 7-figures and was sold for 8-figures.
Adam’s current venture, GetEmails, helps its e-commerce and publishing customers identify their anonymous web traffic and retarget them over email. Adam launched GetEmails in November of 2019 and just crossed 4mm ARR with 6 full-time employees.
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0:00.0 | I would characterize the first year as the Facebook year. |
0:03.7 | My wife and I did these outrageous and funny Facebook selfie videos. |
0:08.2 | The ads were paying back in a day. |
0:11.3 | They were giving us unbelievable reach. |
0:13.3 | It was working incredibly well. |
0:15.5 | But nine months in, we're like, this is the wrong type of customer, turns through the roof. |
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