Datanyze tripled its ARR from $2M to $6M in 2015
Ilya Semin · EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number · Jun 13, 2016 · at 5:51
Ilya Semin, founder and CEO of Datanyze, breaks down the company's 2015 revenue growth in an interview with Nathan Latka.
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“In 2015, we went from about two million dollars at the beginning of the year to about six million at the end of the year.”
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