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Talley Invented Hilton's Automated Text Messaging Over 15 Years Ago
“Hotels, and if you ever stayed at Hilton and you get a text message, I invented that over 15 years ago.”
Talley: Hiring friends at seed stage succeeded due to loyalty
“And hiring my friends with what I thought was the right move or potentially would
lead to a disaster.
really turned out to be, in my world, a really a great thing.
Because these people were really loyal.
and they spent time with me over the years.
So, …”
Talley: Phone-number payments are proven safer than plastic cards
“We proved that it's actually much safer to do a transaction through us with a phone number than it is with a piece of plastic.”
Everywhere Is on Track to Exceed $25M in Revenue in 2023
“We are on track right now to exceed over probably about twenty five million in revenue this year.”
Talley: Engineer founders overbuild products, overwhelming venture capitalists
“Because at the end of the day, as a software engineer, I was building too much.
Because ultimately when I went and put this in front of VCs, I had an app.
I had a text messaging system.
I had a payments company.
And what I was being told was,
You have too…”
Everywhere Sends More SMS Bills Than Paper for Statement Partners
“In fact, there's more text messages going out with a lot of these companies than there are pieces of paper.”
Talley: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Visa use Everywhere's platform
“So if we use Bank of America, KeyBank, Wells Fargo, all those banks today are our customers and leverage this platform. The car networks, Visa, and Discover leverage our platform.”
Closing One Partner Takes the Same Effort as 1,000 Direct Sales
“When I was coming up, building out this product, it was, do I want to knock on a thousand doors or knock on one door that has a thousand customers already, right? And I find that it's really about the same amount of time.”
Everywhere Grew From $1M in 2018 to $3.5M After Relocating to Austin
“Because back in 2018, we barely broke a million. But after moving the company to Austin, we accelerated very quickly over to almost, really over three and a half million.”
Everywhere Partnered With Visa for Healthcare Billing During the Pandemic
“We struck a deal with visa throughout the pandemic, and it quickly accelerated to a lot of their customers, mainly in healthcare.”
Talley: T-Mobile adopted Everywhere's mobile payment system
“Even companies like T-Mobile and other large enterprise companies really started adopting this as a payment method.”