Pandemic should have killed him, he doubled revenue to $1.8m helping live event venues pay and manage talent

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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We make planning live music evvents easier

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0:00.0	Can I multiply that?
0:00.9	I mean, can I take 600 bucks a month times 240?
0:03.2	That puts you at 150 grand a month in revenue.
0:05.9	Yeah, that's the way the math works.
0:08.9	For political reasons, I won't confirm or deny that, but that sounds, yeah, about right.
0:13.3	Yeah.
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0:48.8	Hey folks. My guest today is Matt Ford. He's an entrepreneur, engineer, creator, artist, spiritual
0:53.4	being out of Austin, Texas, now building prism.fm. He helps make planning live music events easier. Matt,
0:59.9	you're ready to take us to the top? Absolutely. Thank you. I was worried about you during COVID.
1:04.2	There was no live music events happening. How did you survive?
1:08.2	It, we actually, we found the silver lining through the pandemic for sure.
1:14.6	It's amazing to say that now in hindsight.
1:17.2	There was definitely a moment in the heart of it where it was hard to see the other side of it.
1:22.8	But our basic hypothesis the whole time was this was going to be a brief moment in time. There was
1:29.0	going to be a live music industry on the other side of the pandemic. And if we use this time
1:33.9	extremely wisely, we can come out on the other side extremely strong. And I'm happy to say that
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