Nathan Latka

What's something you wish you knew back when you were 20?

Oh, I wish I had an mentor that tells me about how to build companies.

Guys, Smith.ai did 1.5 million revenue last month, over 20 million run rate.

That's more than doubled from a year ago.

They've got 600 folks on the team.

And what they're doing is they're helping folks work with customers much better in a more efficient way, whether it's voice, inbound chat, inbound messages.

They're using AI to power this.

But unlike most AI companies, they have real revenue.

Again, voice, web chat, outbound SDR as a service launched back in 2015, 2016, after Aaron sold his first company, Red Beacon, to Home Depot, then stayed at Home Depot through 2015.

Aaron, thanks so much for taking us to the top.

Thank you so much, Nathan.

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As involved AI is doing $185,000 a month in revenue today.

That's up from total revenue last year of 1.5 million in total revenue in 2021.

A year before that up just 250 K they slugged for four years, launched in 2017 to get that first 250 K had 16 grand left in the bank, almost shut it down.

And then G recognized, oh my gosh, Verizon's got a bunch of accounts on our platform, 40 K people using it.