Intern Escapes Corporate Hell, Does $3m
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop
The Top is FOR YOU if you are:
A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)
STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)
An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)
The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).
Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.
Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. |
| 0:09.5 | You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm now at $20,000 per top. |
| 0:18.4 | Five and six million. |
| 0:19.3 | He is hell bent on global domination. We just broke our $100,000 unit sold market Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. |
| 0:21.2 | We just broke our 100,000 unit sold mark. |
| 0:23.9 | And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. |
| 0:28.0 | Yesterday, you guys heard from fellow hokey Ryan Farley. |
| 0:31.6 | He quit a six-figure salary job and built a lawn care company. |
| 0:36.3 | That's right, guys. |
| 0:37.1 | And he's raised over six million in funding |
| 0:39.1 | with hundreds of paying customers. Okay, Top Tribe, you're going to love my guest today. His name is |
| 0:46.7 | Chris Merkel and he's the, he is a creative executive with more than eight years of experience |
| 0:52.5 | in digital product design, e-commerce personalization, |
| 0:55.8 | and consumer privacy. He founded his agency called Razor when he was just 20 years old and has grown |
| 1:02.8 | from working with startups to managing crossed global development teams for Fortune 100 brands. Chris, |
| 1:09.9 | are you ready to take us to the top? I'm ready. All right, man, |
| 1:13.1 | talk to me. So first off, anything in your bio that I missed that you feel is really important |
| 1:17.4 | for the top tribe listeners? I think that's good to start. I mean, we'll get into it. |
| 1:22.7 | Simply put, since I was 13, I've always been tinkering and making apps and websites and stuff. So that's a |
| 1:28.9 | good background. So walk us through, Chris. You're running an agency. What are you actually selling |
| 1:34.0 | right now? We sell a lot of conceptual prototyping, but also development in-house for things like |
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