Guillermo Ortiz

Founder & CEO, Geek Powered Studios · 1 appearance on the record.

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Guillermo Ortiz founded Geek Powered Studios in 2009, growing it into an Austin-based full-service digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, PPC advertising, and web design. Under his leadership, the agency earned recognition including the Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Ethics.

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4 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Guillermo argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ortiz: Google's real-time algorithms eliminate update reference points for SEOs
“It's really frustrating how Google just continually shrinks the SERPs. And you know, now they have real time algorithms, so you have no reference point as to what update hits you.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 12:16 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz

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Everything Guillermo Ortiz said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Ortiz: Google's real-time algorithms eliminate update reference points for SEOs
“It's really frustrating how Google just continually shrinks the SERPs. And you know, now they have real time algorithms, so you have no reference point as to what update hits you.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 12:16 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz
Disclosure
Ortiz: Geek Powered Studios accepts only one client per industry per area
“We only work with one client per industry per area.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 2:56 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ortiz: Geek Powered Studios generated around $800,000 in 2015 revenue
“So in the 2015, the total total revenue was around 800,000.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 6:08 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ortiz: Geek Powered Studios spent 30% to 40% of revenue on SaaS
“I would say that it's close to like 30 or 40%.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 6:54 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ortiz: Geek Powered Studios made $100,000 to $200,000 profit in 2015
“I would say we, it was about, you know, a hundred to 200,000.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 7:21 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz
Disclosure
Ortiz: CEO salary at Geek Powered Studios is $36,000 per year
“My salary is 36,000 a year.”
Guillermo Ortiz Jun 15, 2016 ▶ 7:33 He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guillermo Ortiz

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Gave Up 30% Equity, Launched Own Gig, Winning with $800k/yr+ In Revenue. EP 289: Guille Jun 15, 2016 9m
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