John Brakey, founder of Promys, estimates the company's year-over-year revenue growth in a conversation with Nathan Latka.
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“We were probably about 25% less.”
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“It's based on a seat license and there are two seat licenses. There's a field license or technical license and a full license for the salespeople and the admin people. And so you're looking at it on average about if you blend those two rates together, about 59…”
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“Yeah, that's about right.”
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“We've had a lot of good cashflow and we had our own investment from some other businesses that we sold. So we've never really had to go outside in the marketplace.”
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