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Guys, he had a nice success. Learned a growing ad this, exiting to Oracle for a report over 200 million bucks, then took a break in another company.

And eventually said, you know what, this one man business is the new way to build a company in America.

Profitable, $3 million, $4 million in revenue is the way to go.

He saw an opportunity, launchcoll collective.com in 2020. They're now getting thousands of applicants every

month, very clear pricing at 300 bucks a month or a slight discount, 15% if you pay up front.

He said, quote, they've got thousands of customers. They caught between 1,000 and 10,000.

They've grown using outside capital, 7 million seed raised back in 2020, sold around 15% to 20%

on the company, then raise a 20 series A and a $25 million call

at note, write extension on the A. We'll see what happens next. They look to grow and scale

add new pricing plans and continue serving these one-man businesses. Hey, folks, my guest today

is whom in Radfar, he's a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Collective, the first

all-on-one financial platform designed for businesses of one. He previously

started Ad This, which was acquired by Oracle, was a founding partner at Ex-Pud, and as an early investor

in Uber, Sweet Green, Convoy, and Moore. Who on? You ready to take us to the top? Let's go.

All right. So real quick, again, when was that? Oracle acquired Adthis, right? Correct.

What year was that?

The acquisition, I believe, was done in 2015, and I want to say it closed the beginning of 2016.

Okay, so did you go right into collective after that, or you'd take a break?

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