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Facebook allowed Influence Mobile to pay massive ad debt in installments
“I, you know, we owed the most amount of money to Facebook, who was a big advertising partner. They were actually super cool to deal with. They let me push it out for many, many years, literally of this, like I'll pay 5000 dollars this month, or I can pay zero …”
Influence Mobile is on track for nearly $70M in 2023 revenue
“And we went from, you know, during this window of time, we went from, but well, three million a year to this year we'll do just shy of seventy million in revenue.”
Washington AG let Todd's dot-com startup pay 6 cents on the dollar
“We ended up owing like a 100,000 dollars to people in that bubble burst and we couldn't pay any of the bills and people complained to the Washington state attorney general and Washington state attorney general contacted us, which was very scary. The very first…”
Todd's startup helped the FBI run stings on Eastern European mobsters
“We eventually work with the FBI and help the FBI set up stings on Eastern European mob because of like our business.”
Todd: Influence Mobile became profitable and debt-free within 20 months
“1820 months later we paid off Facebook. We were profitable. We were completely debt free.”
Todd: Influence Mobile reached $100K daily revenue on Facebook within six months
“And then we launched with them and within six months we were making a 100,000 dollars a day.”
Influence Mobile racked up $1.5M in ad debt in just 45 days
“So it didn't actually take long to get a million and a half dollars in debt. It took like 45 days.”
Todd worked two years without pay and depleted his personal savings
“So I worked for about two years during this time period and used all my savings.”
Todd: Kept company alive with six-month high-interest investor bridge loans
“Over the course, by that time we had raised several million dollars, you know, now we didn't have that money at the time, obviously, but I had investors who trusted me and I'd get like 50,000 to a 100,000 dollars at a time, but I'd have to pay that money back …”
Todd: Influence Mobile scaled joint partner revenue from $40K to $4M monthly
“We were doing about four, 40,000 dollars a month together in business. And we were keeping like roughly 70% and they were keeping 30%. And I said, Hey, if you'll take 20% so we can spend more on marketing, I'll send you more business and we'll eventually, you …”
Todd: Influence Mobile has had zero US employee resignations since 2018
“We haven't actually had anybody quit the company in the United States since pre 2018, actually 2018. So it's been six years since somebody quit.”
Influence Mobile to pay $1M bonus pool if 2024 EBITDA targets met
“We're rolling out this new I call it a coinfluence bonus program. It's a profit sharing program tied to us hitting twenty million dollars in EBITDA. Which is a little bit more than one and a half million dollars a month. And when we pay out, we hit this goal, …”