Katayev's Ringtone Matcher platform reached 500 million monthly users
Val Katayev · $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It · Jan 26, 2022 · at 14:57
Entrepreneur Val Katayev shares the scale of his distribution service Ringtone Matcher across major digital audio and lyrics properties.
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“I was in front of ringtone match. It was in front of a half a billion people a month.”
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