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Jensen: Solo SEO landed EIG distribution via Bluehost founder Danny Ashworth

Michael Jensen · 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR" · Aug 17, 2018 · at 6:12

Michael Jensen, co-founder of Solo SEO, explains to Nathan Latka how the bootstrapped company established its channel partnership with Endurance International Group (EIG).

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“The first one that we landed was with so one of my business partners is Danny Ashworth, and he was, he started Bluehost itself, and then Bluehost got bought out, and so the company that bought them out, that was our first hosting company that we were in.”

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