“And there's obviously the YouTube episode that came a little bit later. Added lots of revenue to the product, ShipFast. So it went from, like, 50,000 dollars a month to somewhere around 85,000 dollars on the first month, then 135 In the second month, a 135 in the third month, and now it's slowing down a little bit to somewhere like around 80,000 dollars a month.”
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