Starting and growing businesses is an art, and John Pope reveals the brush

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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John is the CEO of Jive Communications. A cloud based business phone company closing in on $100,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. He has been an entrepreneur his entire life and loves the process of starting and growing businesses. Jive is now the largest privately owned VoIP company in the world. He is also a co-founder of Jive Communications.

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0:00.0	Boom! Shake the room fire nation! JLD here and welcome to episode 1538 of EO Fire. Right
0:10.6	Shower Today's most successful entrepreneur seven days a week and if you are ready
0:16.4	to turn your funnels on fire we have a free step-by-step course created by me at funnelonfire.com.
0:24.6	Now let's show it today's featured guest John Pope John are you prepared to ignite?
0:31.3	Let's do it. Yes. John is the CEO of jive communications it is a cloud-based business phone
0:38.6	company closing in on a hundred million in annual revenue. He's been an entrepreneur his entire life
0:45.6	and he enjoys the process of both starting and growing businesses. Jive is now the largest
0:51.2	privately owned VoIP company that's voice over internet protocol in the world and he's also a
0:57.4	co-founder of jive communications so John I know you're furious at me is that we're conducting
1:03.7	this phone call on Skype but that's something that we'll be getting into a little bit for sure
1:07.7	we'll be talking about jive and VoIP in general etc but first fill in some gaps from that
1:13.1	intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life excellent well thanks for having me
1:17.3	here first off can I say that I am fired up to be an entrepreneur there is no better profession in
1:24.3	the world it is incredible to be able to kind of control your own destiny and I love that you've
1:31.9	invited me to the podcast talk with with yourself and and fire nation a group of folks who I believe
1:40.8	that I've got a lot in common with we've grown this company to be pretty decent size at this point
1:48.1	but I think that you know I've got a lot of the same battle scars as fire nation and so
1:55.7	I'm excited to be here and I would say also that there are a lot of high profile software startups
2:05.3	that you know come right out of the gate with funding and fanfare but that isn't my story
2:09.9	I don't think it's a story of 99% of the entrepreneurs out there so even though we've built this company
2:16.0	a two decent size you know it's I love talking about the blood sweat and tears when you first start out
2:23.0	you're in first gear you're dreaming of someday making it and as for me personally I I'm the type
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