Practice Ignition's customer base is 95% CPAs and bookkeepers
Guy Pearson · Practice Ignition Breaks $24m Revenue, Raises $50m at $330m Valuation Helping 5,000 Accounting Firms Scale · Jan 4, 2022 · at 2:23
Guy Pearson is the CEO and founder of Practice Ignition, discussing the vertical focus of their client engagement software.
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“95% of our customer base are CPAs and bookkeepers around the world.”
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