Brett Hurt

Well, Bizarre Voice was actually my fifth company.

It was definitely the best outcome to date, but I think Dated Out World is much more ambitious and it's incredibly exciting the path we're on with this company.

But Bizarre Voice really popularized customer reviews all over the world.

It really brought that voice of the customer into websites, Walmart and the Home Depot and Best Buy and many others all over the world used it.

As of today, it's in over 20,000 customers worldwide.

and over 40 international languages.

And it's run by a really good friend of mine, Keith Nealon.

And it's an amazingly scaled company at this point.

But yeah, that was an incredible journey.

We were actually rated the number one company to work for in Austin when we're small, then medium, then large.

A lot of the insights in my book come from Bizarre Voice, and we've applied them to Data.World.

By the way, all proceeds

to the Entrepreneur's Essentials go to supporting female entrepreneurs.

So I don't make a dime on this.

And I also gave away the book for free online at theentrepreneursessentials.com.

So Bizarre Voice, I launched it with Brant Barton in 2005.

And to put that in a historical context, there were only three retailers who had customer reviews at the time in the entire United States.

And we...

launched, I think, two years before the iPhone.

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