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Lead Gnome ARR reaches hundreds of thousands with dozens of customers

Matt Benati · 1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR" · Jul 1, 2018 · at 7:46

Matt Benati is the CEO and co-founder of Lead Gnome, an email reply mining SaaS platform.

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“So we have multiple dozens. [468] Nathan Latka: Okay. [468] Matt Benati: And our revenue is in hundreds of thousands ARR.”

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