Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My title is Andrew Warner. I’m the founding father of Mixergy, the place I interview entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs for an viewers of entrepreneurs. I’m extremely enthusiastic about at present’s visitor and I’ve a way that he’s extremely nervous about, uh, at present’s interview, however Tyler Williams is a listener.
Who created one thing that I simply suppose I like what you are promoting, the enterprise referred to as movement array. Do you’ve a fast one sentence description of it? We went via 5 totally different variations that I had right here earlier than the interview.
Tyler: Yeah. So in direction of the tip, um, earlier than we offered it, it was, we had been calling it the all-in-one video makers platform. So. You recognize, uh, something that folks wanted to make a video. We had it on the location.
Andrew: Not the video enhancing software program itself, however nearly the whole lot that you’d want as a video maker to place into your video software program, proper.
Tyler: Yeah. Appropriate.
Andrew: We’re speaking about photographs, video inventory V I’m leaping in. Trigger I get enthusiastic about what you are promoting. Perhaps I ought to shut up, however I’ll inform you it’s. You might have inventory video, inventory photographs, you’ve audio, you’ve, uh, uh, after results, which I didn’t know earlier than I did Mixergy what the, what that’s.
However each time you see a lovely intro to somebodies video the place it’s like their names spinning and stuff popping out, it’s not that individual creating it. It’s not even their editor creating it. They’re usually utilizing a template after which placing their content material on that. Proper. That’s what’s that software program referred to as?
Tyler: Yep. Yeah. So after results, templates and sound results, we tried to have the whole lot that, um, Somebody making a video with
Andrew: And he does it on a month-to-month subscription, constructed up the enterprise, offered the enterprise for a way a lot
Tyler: 65 million.
Andrew: for a man who comes from humble background, who shouldn’t be anyone who’s like, you’re extra of a inventive from what I sense than an entrepreneur. Am I proper?
Tyler: Yeah, I feel so.
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They’re not even amassing e-mail addresses. They simply wished to get that on the market. And to let you realize that. And bounces round if you wish to create fast touchdown pages, just like the one which they use and by HostGator, which I’ll speak about later, Tyler, let’s, let’s simply soar to the tip. What did you do this to reward your self for the years of onerous work that we’re about to seek out out about?
What’s the one factor or two issues that you just bought for your self after the sale?
Tyler: Yeah, so. Um, I purchased a Ferrari, uh, I truly purchased that previous to the sale, um, as a result of I, I anticipated it going via. after which my spouse and I purchased one other home, uh, that we’re at the moment renovating.
Andrew: What’s particular about the home.
Tyler: um, it’s a cool outdated home. Um, it’s truly. It’s a historic residence right here in Atlanta and it was, uh, the house of EISA Candler’s son.
And EISA Candler was the Coke. Uh, the man who began Coca-Cola, he didn’t actually begin it, however he was the one which sort of grew it to what it’s. Um, and so it was his son’s home. And so it has roots right here in Atlanta. So I don’t know. I feel it’s fairly cool.
Andrew: Why? Why does that transfer you? Is he an inspiration to you? Or is it that you just like outdated structure?
Tyler: I feel it has extra to do with the outdated structure. Yeah. And the yard is it’s a very huge yard and, you realize, with it sort of, I don’t need to date the interview, however throughout the pandemic, you realize, a bigger yard, it’s good.
Andrew: So useful. We’ve not used our yard almost as a lot earlier than the pandemic, as we did after the pandemic it’s, uh, and in San Francisco, it’s only a treasure to have the ability to go right into a yard with two children. You didn’t come from a spot the place you had this type of, um, risk. What was life like rising up for you?
Tyler: yeah. Um, life was fairly tough. Um, yeah, I had a tumultuous childhood for positive. Um, there was plenty of, sort of. Nicely, I ought to simply say, you realize, my father was an addict. Uh, sometimes he, he most popular alcohol, after all. Um, however due to that, you realize, there was lots of transferring forwards and backwards between, you realize, properties.
He would get a job after which lose a job and, you realize, so it was sort of forwards and backwards between homes and, you realize, my mother and father divorced, um, Yeah. After which we stayed with my mother single mother, and that was fairly onerous simply residing on her wage.
Andrew: What’s one factor that you just noticed different folks do or get that you just lifeless stung for you since you didn’t have it, or what’s one factor you felt you had been lacking.
Tyler: that I wished actually extra than simply sort of stability in the home,
Andrew: Uh, bought it.
Tyler: And to not, not be on edge on a regular basis.
Andrew: You, you began out creating for different platforms. What had been you creating?
Tyler: After my daughter was born, um, my spouse wished to remain residence and we couldn’t afford it. So I used to be making an attempt to make extra cash. Um, and on the movement graphics studio I used to be working at, uh, they’d purchased some inventory footage and inventory animations, and I used to be like, Hey, I could make that stuff. So, yeah. I made some inventory animations and uploaded them to a website referred to as pond 5.
Um, and you realize, I simply occurred to get a sale and it was very, um, fairly addictive for me to, to get the net gross sales. Um, and so I began doing that for awhile after which I realized,
Andrew: imply by inventory animation? What had been you creating?
Tyler: it’s inventory video, but it surely’s simply, pre-made animations. So you possibly can’t actually manipulate them or add textual content or something like that. It’s not like a template, it’s simply an animation. So, you realize, like a superb instance is sort of some that you just see of the earth spinning and, you realize, sort of the solar within the background with like a pleasant lens flare, that sort of a factor.
Andrew: bought it. You recognize what? That is one thing that I, I didn’t know till I went down a rabbit gap on YouTube. A variety of occasions when somebody needs to set the scene, they may present their metropolis from excessive above, however they’re not flying a drone to get that shot. They’re going onto your website, movement, array, or website like yours.
They’re simply shopping for it and placing it in. Proper. Which is that’s the viewers doesn’t want them to shoot that, that shot of their metropolis. They simply need to know the place are we situated? And that one second video helps inform that. And it’s price to simply go to a website like yours to get it. All proper. So I perceive, I bought that for video.
I didn’t understand that additionally existed for animation. You might be sitting there in your spare time, cranking it out, placing it up on this different platform. You began getting gross sales, you began getting hooked on, after which take me via how that led you to say, I feel I may create my very own, my very own platform.
Tyler: So. After the inventory animations. I, I discovered one other website referred to as Rebo inventory. Um, that’s R E V O. They usually had been doing lots of after results templates, and I had by no means thought-about that, however I used to be in a position to sort of put two and two collectively. And I, I noticed probably the most downloaded merely on their website. It confirmed what number of downloads it was and the worth.
And I simply did the mathematics and I used to be like, wow. You recognize, this man is making a ton of cash. And he solely did it one time, you realize, and it simply retains promoting time and again. So I began making templates and really began incomes more cash from the templates and the inventory animations. And I used to be at my, my day job as an animator.
And yeah, I had informed my buddy about it, um, on the similar studio. And we had been, we had been working late one evening on the studio. It was most likely, you realize, eight o’clock, 9 o’clock, one thing like that. We had been caught there and we had been like, this sucks, you realize, we’ve bought to do one thing. So we sort of, we had been simply spit balling concepts.
And the primary concept that got here, it was sort of, um, a technique to customise after mounted templates on-line so that you just didn’t even want after results templates. Like you may simply change the textual content within the browser, change the colours. After which within the background it could render out the video.
Andrew: So, if I wished to, you’ve a very cool intro for this podcast. If I had been to do a video model of it and I wished Mixergy to return on and spin it a sure manner, I wouldn’t should get the template loaded into the software program. Manipulated. After which export it after which use that video because the intro to all my movies, I may simply go to your website.
Your imaginative and prescient was kind in my title, which is Mixergy choose the template that I need hit enter, after which outward come a file that I may put earlier than all of my movies and provides it that cool intro. That looks as if lots of work for 2 non-diverse.
Tyler: Okay. Yeah. And that was the issue. So we realized, you realize, it was going to take some huge cash and yeah, simply lots of builders and lots of assets that we didn’t have on the time. So we had been like, Hey. Let’s simply make this little web site and we’ll add after results templates, and we’ll make it limitless downloads.
And the concept was that we’d make some huge cash actual quick, after which we’d use that cash to fund, uh, the opposite concept.
Andrew: Okay. So simply create the templates your self because you’re already good at making them. The place can you use the templates that you just placed on the opposite platforms or did it’s a must to make new ones?
Tyler: Yeah. So we made positive to, to affix non-exclusive, uh, marketplaces in order that we may sort of put them wherever we wished. Um, yeah. And the way in which we truly funded the corporate was by importing to different platforms. So all the cash that we had been incomes on the opposite platforms, we had been simply placing again into promoting and rising our personal website.
Andrew: Obtained it. Um, that makes lots of sense. What number of templates did you’ve by yourself platform once you began?
Tyler: On launch day. It was 10.
Andrew: Okay. And also you had been promoting it on subscription.
Tyler: We had been. Yeah. Um, I do not forget that. So my enterprise companion designed the websites. It seemed like a heavy metallic web site. It’s it’s so humorous too. To look again at, um, after which we had some builders in India make it, I feel, for a little bit over a thousand {dollars} and we had been doing the whole lot proper. You recognize, capturing emails and, you realize, in order that once we went stay, we may ship out an e-mail blast and let everybody know.
After which the morning we did go stay, um, we instantly had one individual join and. I keep in mind telling my enterprise companion, Eddie. I used to be like, Hey man, that is it. Like, that is it. We’re off to the races now. And after that one sale, nothing, nothing simply crickets for 4 months. Yeah.
Andrew: What did this was again in? What? 2011,
Tyler: 2011.
Andrew: what did you guys use to create your subscription website? Do you keep in mind?
Tyler: Um, yeah, the precise web site was constructed on Joomla. Yeah. So it was constructed on Joomla and the subs, the subscriptions had been via, uh, PayPal, which absolute nightmare, however that’s how he did it.
Andrew: However it labored shortly. What PayPal had that different platforms didn’t have for a very long time was a simple technique to create a button that gave you a subscription that mechanically would cost folks. And if they’d a PayPal account, it was even simpler.
Tyler: Yeah.
Andrew: You recognize, what the explanation I’m asking is that I really feel like now what you constructed is way simpler to create, to create a market that sells, that sells digital merchandise.
And there’s all the time some new factor that wants templates. The new factor that I’m noticing proper now could be templates for notion, which individuals consider as a be aware app, but it surely’s extra like a Wiki app. Anyway, you may design these very nice notes or wikis on it. However if you happen to add a template to it, it turns into rather more helpful, a lot prettier.
You can even flip it right into a website. Anyway. I really feel like folks can take this concept that you just’ve created, um, for video and you utilize it for all these different platforms. All proper. So you probably did that. You bought your first sale that manner. And did you continue to have each of you, your full-time job
Tyler: Yeah.
Andrew: keep the full-time jobs?
Did you continue to proceed to undergo different platforms?
Tyler: Yup. All, you realize, nights and weekends, we had been working, making extra templates. I feel we every ended up making a few thousand, um, for over the primary few years.
Andrew: A part of the explanation why you had been simply working so onerous, I sense is due to what occurred when your spouse first turned pregnant, you sort of hinted at it earlier than, however these days round that had been tumultuous, tumultuous for you. What was happening?
Tyler: we had been residing in Savannah and I used to be going to grad faculty. Um, and my spouse was working on the time and she or he bought pregnant. And on the similar time, I used to be recognized with a spinal tumor. And on high of that, my mother, uh, was dying from colon most cancers. So we had been like, Hey, we have to transfer residence to be round household.
And we moved residence. I had my surgical procedure that went advantageous. Um, after which my mother held on simply lengthy sufficient to see her, her granddaughter. It was, she noticed her on a digital camera, however nonetheless, you realize, she was in a position to see her and she or he was positively holding out for that. Um, as a result of she handed away two days after she was born. And.
Andrew: mentioned, I don’t know what was happening together with her.
Tyler: Yeah. So my spouse ended up having postpartum melancholy, um, and didn’t need to depart our daughter. Uh, simply the considered going again to work was both consuming her up inside and, you realize, I used to be making an attempt to do the whole lot I may in my energy to make sufficient cash in order that she didn’t have to return.
Andrew: Whenever you had been working at evening. And weekends and occasions once you had been drained after a full day of labor, was that in your head? Had been you pondering I’ve bought to handle my household. That is now I’m a father. I’ve bought this duty. It’s not simply creating one other template. It’s do or die for my household.
They might return to the life that I had. I do this to myself. I simply attempt to fireplace myself up with the worst case situation. Get up, Andrew. Right here’s what may go unsuitable? Right here’s what’s at the doorstep. Hold working. Does that, is that what you probably did?
Tyler: that’s what I did.
Andrew: You probably did, how did you do this? How did you consciously get your self?
Take into consideration that and use it.
Tyler: so I feel there’s sort of two elements to that. And it was, you realize, one was offering for my household and the opposite was. Working away from morning. Um, and the melancholy that set in after my mother handed away. So yeah, I feel it was simply sort of pure to simply attempt to bury my head and work on the time. And finally it backfired utterly. yeah, so I simply bought so caught up in work that I uncared for my relationship with my spouse. Um, and we ended up getting separated for a few 12 months.
Andrew: Wow.
Tyler: Yeah. However you realize,
Andrew: making an attempt to supply for her and your daughter and take care of your melancholy and or not melancholy, however the disappointment along with your mother, all that. It’s it saved you working a lot that she disconnected from you. Did she begin, did she begin speaking to you about that? I discover my spouse will say that to me and I don’t listen as a result of I feel, okay, she’ll get previous it.
It’s your job to get previous it. Similar to it’s my job to work late.
Tyler: Yeah. That’s precisely what occurred. You recognize, she was, she was telling me and giving me indicators, however I simply wasn’t choosing up on them. Um,
Andrew: What’d you do have finished on reflection, I really feel like that is. It’s a successful story right here. It labored for you. Would you’ve taken a step again from work? Ought to you’ve taken your foot off the gasoline?
Tyler: No, I don’t, I don’t actually suppose again about how I’d change issues. Um, simply not a lot you are able to do. Proper. So, um, however yeah, you realize, I, I attempt to be extra receptive for positive. Um, in a relationship now and positively right here out, as a result of I do know that she would kick me out
Andrew: It’s not an idle risk. It’s been confirmed.
Tyler: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andrew: Um, I lastly bought again collectively. Was it since you had a realization that you just’re prepared to work much less or what? That you just’re not as scared anymore with the health club extra momentum? What was it?
Tyler: um, you realize, I feel if you happen to had been to ask her, the truth that I by no means gave up on the connection was the explanation that, uh, we bought again collectively.
Andrew: How did that
Tyler: As a result of I, you realize, I simply suppose it’s really easy to surrender. Um, it’s a a lot simpler factor to do than to struggle for a relationship. And I by no means, you realize, by no means stop. I’d saved coming over and taking good care of my daughter and
Andrew: Okay. So then you definitely created your website. How did you get prospects? How’d you get that first buyer after which the primary prospects after that?
Tyler: Yeah. So the primary buyer was just a few random person who, you realize, thought it was a good suggestion to enroll and obtain these templates. However after that, you realize, you simply should be taught the whole lot, proper? Like I used to be studying advert phrases and we had been studying. the right way to market the corporate. And we ended up placing advert phrases on my bank card and simply letting it run for a short while.
After which we simply got here to the conclusion that we would have liked extra content material. Um, after which that may assist the conversion fee.
Andrew: So it’s that you just didn’t have sufficient content material after the, after anyone got here from an advert to transform them or that you just had been pondering search engine optimisation. That’s what it was. As a result of they’re not simply coming in saying I’m prepared to purchase. They’re coming in pondering, what, what are they, what are they on the lookout for once they’re researching?
Tyler: Yeah. So I feel the difficulty is we had been a membership website. Um, I feel if we had been simply promoting one-off templates, you realize, it wouldn’t be that huge of a deal. They might simply purchase one and go use it. However right here they had been, you realize, They had been signing up for one thing. And that sort of makes folks really feel locked in a little bit bit.
And you realize, if we didn’t have that a lot contents, I feel that’s what was, uh, a barrier for entry for lots of people.
Andrew: You guys are nice at it. Now there’s that video proper on the homepage. That reveals me what I get. If I subscribe, if I’m a member, there’s the free content material. So go forward, join, get some stuff without cost. See what we’re like. After which after all you begin the connection with them, which makes it simpler to transition from a free membership to paid then from no membership to pay to membership.
By the way in which, why did you determine to go for a membership? A variety of different websites had been promoting one-offs.
Tyler: Yeah. Um, I simply, I don’t know, you realize, the concept of, I feel Netflix had already gone limitless or with streaming truly. I don’t know when that really occurred, however. I simply sort of noticed that as the longer term and the place it was headed. So making it subscription and simply the concept of recurring income is the place we wish it to go.
Andrew: If you happen to’re an, if you happen to’re a web based enterprise or frankly, any enterprise in any respect, having recurring income is so good that it’s in your curiosity to make it like a no brainer for folks to purchase that it’s virtually painful so that you can give that a lot, that folks will join, you realize, like, um, If, if you happen to’re Disney and also you give out the newest film that’s alleged to be within the theater, it simply needs to be so good that they suppose what the, what are these guys pondering?
I’d virtually suppose that for Disney, it must be. And guess what, if you happen to get, if you happen to come to Disney world, we’ll allow you to in without cost or we’ll allow you to lower the road or some like full search for one thing that’s that painful as a result of it’s that useful for a enterprise to have recurring income, to, to have predictability, to have progress.
All proper. Let me take a second to speak about my, uh, sponsor. It’s HostGator. One of many issues that I like about your story is, like I mentioned, there’s all the time new children classes to create marketplaces for if somebody’s listening to us proper now they usually go to hostgator.com/mixergy inside a second, they could possibly be up and working with a WordPress web site.
There are. Themes that you should use to show that WordPress web site right into a market that sells any digital product. I, like I mentioned, notion is an effective instance of it, proper? Folks are actually getting enthusiastic about notion, however there are others. Are you able to consider any Tyler? What would you do proper now? If you happen to, if there’s a digital market, would you give you proper now?
Tyler: Um, you realize, this may not be good to your sponsor, however, um, I’m actually entering into internet circulate. Um, and what they’re doing
Andrew: Why do you want internet circulate greater than WordPress? I’m seeing lots of people get enthusiastic about, about them
Tyler: for me, it sort of lends itself to movement graphics, designers, and I, there’s simply lots of animations that you are able to do simply. And. Yeah. I don’t know. Perhaps it’s simply the interface is sort of acquainted.
Andrew: I positively, um, I positively see that that’s a competitor to WordPress and I’ve no drawback with you by the way in which, convey up rivals, however is there a template market for that? For there may be proper for internet circulate. There’s
Tyler: I feel, I feel Webflow truly has templates on its website
Andrew: They do, however you realize what I discover you get, you get them with all these totally different platforms, however there’s all the time, um, there are all the time different platforms that create higher templates. The issue with templates for internet design is it’s a one-off factor. That’s why ThemeForest sells one and finished. You don’t want, until you’re a design company, you don’t want tons of themes.
So it doesn’t, I don’t suppose lend itself to that. As a lot as different platforms do after I take into consideration notion or after I take into consideration, uh, I overlook what that’s. There are these like, uh, spreadsheet websites which are simply tremendous highly effective. Proper? After I take into consideration that, there are many various things you may do with them and also you want a theme for every one among them.
So that you would possibly use, um, sorry, what are we going?
Tyler: Yeah. I used to be going to say, didn’t you’ve somebody on right here that, um, began, uh, uh, PowerPoint templates,
Andrew: Proper. So for PowerPoint, I don’t do not forget that, however for PowerPoint, for positive. Individuals who do PowerPoint displays want templates on an ongoing foundation, as a result of there’s an opportunity that they’re utilizing them for conferences regularly. Um, Something, I feel the place it’s digital, the place there’s ongoing want for, it lends itself to a market that folks can cost.
Uh, people who find themselves listening to us can go and create {the marketplace} for it, after which cost an ongoing charge. Sure, you may do that with different platforms. And I encourage folks to do it with no matter platform works for them. The rationale I like WordPress is as a result of there are templates and themes and the whole lot already constructed as a result of it’s, it’s probably the most.
Common, uh, content material administration system on the web proper now, one out of three web sites I feel is hosted on WordPress. And if you happen to’re gonna host on WordPress, convey it to HostGator. And if you happen to’re gonna convey you to host Gator, go to hostgator.com/mixergy, we’ll give, they’ll offer you an extremely low worth, um, and simply offer you one thing that works.
All proper. At this level, you lastly have began to purchase some advertisements. You beginning to, um, Add content material. Was there anyone factor that helped you get a bump to that magical $10,000 a month? Recurring income second?
Tyler: Um, excuse me. So I don’t suppose there was one factor that bought us to the $10,000 a month recurring income. I do keep in mind celebrating it. Um,
Andrew: How did you rejoice it?
Tyler: W I feel we simply went and had a beer, uh, down the road.
Andrew: Why was 10,000 so essential to you?
Tyler: So 10,000 was so essential as a result of that allowed us to stop our job.
Andrew: Actually? In order that’s $60,000 for every of you a 12 months and that’s sufficient to stop your jobs.
Tyler: We had been scraping by, however yeah, we had been additionally. We had been additionally doing a little freelance work on the facet and utilizing that cash.
Andrew: you and your co-founder made a thousand templates every. Why? Why didn’t you say, you realize what? We’re going to create a market the place anybody can add their stuff. We’re going to take a step again and never create these a motive why you determined you wanted to do it yourselves.
Tyler: Yeah. So since we had been like a limiteless market, the sum of money that. Somebody importing a template would get is, can be simply too small for them to need to, to do it and to affix the as a result of they had been used to, you realize, the opposite websites the place they had been getting 50% of every sale and
Andrew: So that you’re saying it, it simply wasn’t sufficient. there wasn’t sufficient cash to pay the individuals who’d create the templates, particularly in comparison with what they had been getting somewhere else. I get that. What had been you charging a month?
Tyler: We, uh, we experimented with each worth. Um, I feel it. It was round like $29 a month. And, you realize, it was simply loopy to us that we didn’t have extra members than we did as a result of the templates, a few of these price greater than a month-to-month membership. And we had, you realize, a thousand, 2000 and yeah, it was simply
Andrew: You probably did have that. No brainer deal. I imply, actually it’s just some bucks to get it. You might be positively undercharging and nonetheless folks didn’t uncover you as a result of it’s onerous to get seen. Proper.
Tyler: It’s very onerous. I feel, you realize, once you construct your website and your organization, you simply suppose individuals are going to return to it magically and it simply doesn’t occur.
Andrew: And the worth was so good. Take into consideration like, how may you modify the pricing? How may you modify the touchdown pages and all that. However honestly, if no person’s coming, it’s actually onerous. If you happen to’re, if you happen to’re shopping for advertisements and nonetheless not changing, it’s actually powerful.
Tyler: Yeah.
Andrew: I keep in mind one of many issues that labored for me and I had it simpler as a result of I had an viewers first after which I had a subscription product, however I keep in mind one factor that labored for me was folks mentioned, I need to simply purchase one off.
I mentioned, okay, nice. Right here it’s. The usual worth is what, few hundred bucks per, per on-line course, we’re going to promote ours for $97 for one-off or 25 bucks a month for all of them. Which one would you like? It’s a no brainer, even if you happen to’re gradual and it takes you 4 months to cancel, we’re going to handle you.
Um, and it’s nonetheless a greater deal, however for you, you simply didn’t have that inbuilt viewers. He didn’t have the advertising chops. Proper. And it’s not a factor that, um, it’s simply not a, what was it? A factor that folks had been trying to find? Was it a factor that individuals are gravitating to? No.
Tyler: Yeah. You recognize, there was lots of search site visitors for after results templates, however. Yeah, the worth sort of was too excessive at that time too. I imply, we had been nonetheless doing it, however you realize, we had been competing with the bigger corporations and yeah, it was simply powerful for positive.
Andrew: Inform me a little bit bit in regards to the software program that you just used to start with. It was at Joomla website.
Tyler: Yeah. To start with it was Juma after which we determined, yeah, we saved up and had a designer redesign the location. Um, and thru him, we met a developer that rebuilt your entire factor, um, utilizing Laravel and on the backend and just a few JavaScript on the entrance finish after which launched us to Stripe as a result of we had been utilizing PayPal.
Yeah. Good determination there. Um, and he additionally had. The concept to not do limitless and to make it credit-based the place it’s nonetheless recurring income, however you had, you realize, 4 to twenty totally different downloads that you may do per thirty days. And I feel that’s what enabled us to afterward open up {the marketplace} to different contributors, as a result of the income that they’d be getting per obtain was loads greater than if it had been limitless.
Andrew: Obtained it. That’s, that does make lots of sense. You didn’t have points earlier than, proper. The place folks had been coming in subscribing after which downloading the whole lot
Tyler: We did. Yeah. I feel these individuals are all the time on the market, however
Andrew: I discovered that we had that, but it surely wasn’t a sufficiently big situation. Everybody saved telling me, be careful listed below are alternative ways to dam towards it, but it surely wasn’t a sufficiently big situation to trigger an issue. Um, however I, I assume these individuals are, such as you mentioned, they’re all the time on the market and with you, they get to maintain it without cost and no matter they create utilizing the designs they bought from you, they get to maintain the possession of proper. Uh, I ponder if at present there’s simply. A neater platform for making a market like yours, which retains monitor of the whole lot. Is it their fundamental marketplaces for positive. They’re templates for it. However is there somebody who makes it straightforward to create a market charged by credit after which break up the income with the, with the creators who’re on {the marketplace}?
Tyler: No, I, I’m unsure. Simply because we had ours constructed and I simply haven’t been trying,
Andrew: When do you ever convey that in home? Or was it all the time an outsource factor for you guys?
Tyler: Oh yeah. We, we ended up rising the staff for positive. In home.
Andrew: How huge was the staff earlier than you offered?
Tyler: At its peak, most likely round 40 folks. Yeah.
Andrew: Why did you determine to promote.
Tyler: you realize, we had been doing it for 9 years on the time and we had been rising fairly nicely and. A monetary advisor had reached out to my enterprise companion and informed them about how the market was scorching for the kind of enterprise that we have now. Um, and also you by no means know what’s going to occur sooner or later.
You recognize, he was a superb salesman, uh, and he simply sort of put the bug in our ear and, and we thought of it and thought of sort of our households, you realize, and ensuring our households can be taken care of as a result of I, I simply really feel like. On daily basis for 9 years, I all the time had the sensation that your entire factor may simply be, you realize, wiped away.
Somebody may unplug the server or one thing, you realize, it’s not that more likely to occur, however yeah, the sensation’s all the time there. So sort of de-risking and having cash for our households, I feel was the largest motivation.
Andrew: What do you do to cease pondering that manner is I discover that I’m not very efficient and I don’t come throughout assured and, and clear and robust after I really feel like the entire thing may go away tomorrow. That if I don’t worth myself sufficient to suppose that that is going to remain round eternally, folks choose up on that in my voice, and it actually hurts each dialog.
And after I do consider that this can outlast me, that folks will likely be learning Mixergy interviews eternally. For instance, you may hear it in my voice and other people need to work with me. Persons are happier and extra productive working with me. And so I attempt to keep centered like that, however typically it’s a problem.
Tyler: Yeah, I feel, you realize, after I was speaking about it going away, it had extra to do with me and my enterprise companion, not being builders, um, and sort of that total world simply being unknown to us. Um, That we simply all the time had the sensation that the location may go down and, you realize, or it may get hacked or, yeah, simply
Andrew: you simply don’t have the talents to repair the factor that goes unsuitable.
Tyler: Yeah,
Andrew: Yeah,
Tyler: as a result of we had been the, we had been the artists, we had been, we made the templates. That’s what we knew. Um, however when it got here to the, the event facet, that’s sort of what saved me up at evening typically.
Andrew: All proper. So then you definitely determined what going to promote. We’ve been, will you burned out after eight years of labor? Do you’re feeling
Tyler: It trusted the day
Andrew: actually? Okay,
Tyler: some days had been good. Some days weren’t so good.
Andrew: so that you employed an funding banker. Are you able to say who you employed?
Tyler: Um, positive. Um, MVP capital, which I feel has been acquired by Houlihan Lokey.
Andrew: They usually went out they usually began buying you round.
Tyler: Yeah. So that they put collectively all of the advertising info, um, within the projections and bought the whole lot able to go. After which we had been about to go to market and COVID struck. So they simply mentioned we should always shelve it and simply play the whole lot by ear. So it was similar to week after week handed and. They simply saved saying, let’s simply wait one other week and see what occurs.
So it was a really lengthy not, nicely,
Andrew: No. Do you drink or due to your dad, you maintain again.
Tyler: yeah. You recognize, I stop ingesting over a 12 months and a half in the past now and going via COVID was troublesome for positive. However yeah. Um, yeah, simply. Fairly stressed your entire time. I’m positive my spouse would inform you, however yeah, it was not a enjoyable time.
Andrew: How’d your staff take care of that?
Tyler: It was bizarre as a result of we didn’t, we had not allow them to, we didn’t allow them to know,
Andrew: No, however along with your nervousness, they’ll make it learn that you just’re not,
Tyler: Yeah, no, no. You recognize, trigger we’d have just some conferences. All through the week as a result of we had been utterly distant and yeah, I don’t know in the event that they picked up on it or not.
Andrew: Wow. All proper. And then you definitely bought costs all around the board. You lastly determined to promote to the very best bidder.
Tyler: The place are they? The best bidder? we may probably have gotten extra, however. The deal that they’d was simply actually good, you realize, as a result of lots of people, once they hear about folks promoting an organization, they don’t find out about the entire again or the earn outs the place it’s a must to keep on for, you realize, two or three years and all of these things.
So yeah, the deal that we bought with artless was actually good. They wished to maneuver actually shortly. Um, And the time that we have now to remain on is fairly brief and it’s not contingent, you realize, the, the cash’s not contingent on any targets that we have now to hit. So it was only a fairly candy deal.
Andrew: Why did you guys announce the quantity I see right here? It’s a Televiv firm, proper?
Tyler: Yeah, that’s right.
Andrew: They put out a press launch saying that they purchased you for $65 million. Normally I’ve to work on getting the founder to open up about this. That is proper there within the press launch. Why did they are saying it?
Tyler: You recognize, I’m unsure. I feel. Yeah. I don’t know.
Andrew: How was it so that you can have everyone know what you offered the corporate for you personal 50% of his enterprise, proper?
Tyler: Yeah. So not that many individuals know
Andrew: They simply don’t look this up.
Tyler: until you’re within the enterprise world, like. None of my household is aware of, uh, my buddies actually don’t know if you happen to’re on LinkedIn and related to me. You would possibly’ve seen the article, however apart from that, yeah, we haven’t actually introduced it to that many individuals.
Andrew: I’d return a little bit bit and perceive the way you, the way you grew the enterprise once you began getting different D different creators in your platform. I do know that it could have helped you. It will have helped you, um, have, have extra content material and be extra sticky to your current prospects, however did these creators additionally begin sending you prospects or due to the way in which you structured your market as a subscription?
Tyler: they didn’t ship us that many shoppers, I don’t suppose.
Andrew: that’s the
Tyler: And it was, it was tremendous onerous. To persuade them to affix our website. We, um, yeah, I feel we began with a 70, 30 break up giving them 70% of, of all the income of all of the income that the com uh, the location earned per thirty days.
Andrew: Okay. Which means. Oh, but it surely’s the basket of all of the creators get 70%. Wow. So which means if you happen to, the day, day one, once you introduced in new creators, Your income, regardless that it was all of your stuff, primarily, that was promoting your income bought chopped to 30%.
Tyler: Probably not as a result of we nonetheless had our content material on
Andrew: Oh, as a result of proper. You’re additionally listed as a creator. And so that you get to share in that, in that 70% based mostly on the proportion of. Down your stuff. That’s downloaded in comparison with the others. Okay. I get it. Um, and the explanation that they wouldn’t ship folks over is as a result of they don’t know, they could be sending anyone into your market after which that individual goes to go and purchase from everybody else.
So what’s the purpose of, of losing their power, sending folks in. You recognize what I ponder how the one market that I’ve seen do that very well is Skillshare. And I think about the explanation that they do nicely is as a result of there are individuals are, have such a rabid following that they care about their content material, proper?
If you happen to like Ali Abdullah, you need to go and watch, you’ve watched them on YouTube. You need to go and be taught from him on Skillshare. He tells you to go to Skillshare otherwise you’re going to go and be taught his course, and also you could be diverted to one thing else, however you’ll be taught from his course. And I feel I could possibly be unsuitable about this, however I feel Skillshare additionally offers the originator of the sale, a giant lower of the sale.
And also you guys didn’t do this. It was it wasn’t like get the primary month once you ship a brand new buyer over.
Tyler: Proper. Yeah.
Andrew: So it’s all on you. All they do is present extra content material so that you can promote, but it surely’s all on you to do the advertising. And that implies that you miss out loads, like each different market, each different method, they get the creators to ship folks over.
You concentrate on Etsy, you say, go to my Etsy store, however you’re sending folks.
Tyler: Yeah. And these creators had been so entrenched in our rivals that they’d a lot somewhat ship them to their websites as a result of they. Get a better lower as a result of it’s a per product, um, bought there.
Andrew: After which possibly they’ve the, um, the chief boards they usually go up the leaderboards, which implies they get extra gross sales. And even when they don’t get the leaderboard gross sales, their numbers go up the following day, uh, the obtain quantity. Would you continue to suggest this method contemplating that it, it simply doesn’t alleviate the advertising burden
Tyler: yeah, I feel so. For positive. Simply. I don’t suppose we’d be the place we’re proper now with out all of those guys and their content material.
Andrew: Yeah. Do you want their content material, however you’d nonetheless suggest the SAS method of charging a month-to-month charge. So what you’re seeking to the creators for shouldn’t be the advertising. You’re on the lookout for them to create the content material and it’s price placing within the effort to get them in. And then you definitely put the hassle and also you get a recurring income.
That’s predictable, that’s a sale of the enterprise that you would be able to then promote and get a a number of of gross sales, uh, from the corporate. All proper. I’m with you. What labored then for advertising now was on you to convey prospects, not only for your loved ones, however for all of your creator’s households. What else was working?
Tyler: Yeah, so. We had been truly, so we had been approached by an organization. Uh, they wished to buy us and we, we entertain the concept. And presently it was simply myself, my co-founder and possibly a few builders. And we met with them. Didn’t just like the deal. Um, however in doing so we realized that, um, Considered one of their advertising guys was leaving their firm and he had finished nicely for them.
So we, we poached him, not likely submit him. He was leaving anyway. So, uh, we approached him and he determined to affix us and he mainly arrange all of our advertising for us. Um, you realize, he was doing that phrases very well. After which he was rising our search engine optimisation site visitors. And simply churning out heaps and plenty of content material, um, with that.
What else did we do then? We bought into Fb ultimately, which ended up understanding actually, very well. We had Eddie and I had, yeah, Eddie and I had tried it just a few occasions and we simply couldn’t get it, you realize, most likely trigger we didn’t have the time to spend on it, however. So we went again to it, reluctantly, but it surely positively took off for us.
Every time Cole joined the corporate,
Andrew: You recognize, after which I seen additionally that he began getting you into all these totally different free marketplaces, proper? There are websites like a smooth archive, which gives apps, music video games, and it’s all mainly without cost. And what they’re doing is that they’re linking to 2 different websites. Have you learnt the location?
Tyler: I don’t
Andrew: I ponder how a lot it, that is truly, um, pirate verse not, let me see, uh,
Tyler: sure. We must always most likely speak about that. There’s there’s an enormous simply pirate group for this kind of content material. You recognize, somebody will come to our websites with a stolen bank card. Be part of. Obtain tons of stuff. After which the following day it’s up on all of those different pirated web sites.
Andrew: What do you do about that?
Tyler: So we employed a man that was despatched out DMCs, um, and that labored fairly nicely. However then these pirate guys, you realize, they created their very own sort of server farm community. I don’t know what you need to name it. That. They might add the content material too, and you’d ship them a D the MCA they usually simply wouldn’t take it down.
So, you realize, it’s simply an ongoing battle.
Andrew: Yeah.
Tyler: And if anybody on the market can clear up this drawback, I feel there’s some huge cash in it.
Andrew: I really feel like lots of the individuals who method me to resolve it are possibly even inflicting the issue within the first place. You recognize what I imply? I’ve this sense that a few of them are literally copying stuff. After which they’re saying, Hey, look, there’s somebody copying the stuff out of your website. Go and do it. Uh, yeah, I see.
Really that it appears to be like like a few of these websites are literally nonetheless sending you site visitors although. I ponder if you happen to guys are shopping for advertisements on them. Yeah. Have a look at this. He could be all proper. I can, yeah, I can see that. It’s I didn’t understand how huge privateness is smooth archive. It appears to be like like you possibly can, you should buy half, you possibly can obtain pirated books and different stuff from there.
All proper. Affiliate packages, you realize, if that labored out nicely for you. Okay.
Tyler: we simply began entering into an associates program earlier than the sale. So the outcomes are sort of up within the air.
Andrew: All proper. Um, you realize, let me ask you on a private degree. Now that the interview is over earlier than we began, you mentioned to me, um, I’ve a little bit social nervousness.
Tyler: Yeah.
Andrew: So how does it really feel to be on digital camera like this and be requested so many questions? What do you undergo when this occurs?
Tyler: Um, initially, you realize, you, you visualize everybody sort of gazing you,
Andrew: Yeah,
Tyler: suppose you’re such a superb interviewer that, you realize, It turns into simply being a dialog between the 2 of us and helps relieve the nervousness.
Andrew: you’re taking medication for this too.
Tyler: I do.
Andrew: What’d he take?
Tyler: I take a small dose of Clonopin on daily basis.
Andrew: And what does that do
Tyler: have generalized nervousness. So not simply socialize, social nervousness. Yeah.
Andrew: Simply daily? What does that really feel like? What triggers it after which what does it really feel once you get it?
Tyler: You recognize, I by no means had it till most likely three or 4 years in the past. And I imply, it simply, it modified my life utterly. Like simply, it’s superb, you realize, not having to take care of these, uh,
Andrew: You’re saying your complete life you’ve gone via having nervousness and it was only a pure factor continuously happening. Wow. And so how would that have an effect on you? Would you’ve a hiring dialog with somebody after which that may put you into an anxious spot with one thing else?
Tyler: simply, yeah. You recognize, simply the craziest ideas. Um, I may sit there and take into consideration, uh, I don’t know, one thing like if my spouse had gone someplace, like I’d instantly suppose, I hope she doesn’t get right into a automotive wreck. Yeah, similar to, and simply, I feel given my mother’s previous or sort of the well being points that run within the household well being has all the time been a set off huge time for me.
So going via COVID has not been simply straightforward, however, um, yeah, simply plenty of totally different triggers.
Andrew: And what in regards to the, this might all go away tomorrow. Did it ease that. It did. Oh, wow. You recognize what? I ponder how a lot mine is his nervousness. I don’t really feel I’ve bought nervousness truly, however I do have this sense continuously that one thing dangerous may go unsuitable and it’s associated simply to work, If I take into consideration my household, it often comes up. I wasn’t the dad who would go and examine to see if my child was respiratory.
I simply assumed that they had been respiratory. My child broke the webcam that we had on him and I used to be advantageous. I noticed they simply scream in the event that they want you, however the, Oh, no, one thing actually dangerous may occur work. After which I received’t be capable of handle my household. I received’t be capable of handle myself. I’ll be so embarrassed with the world.
And what they’ll suppose that simply that’s an issue.
Tyler: Yeah. I keep in mind when our daughter was born, like simply worrying about each potential factor that would go unsuitable. And I really feel now that the remedy, I’d simply inform myself, you realize, that’s not more likely to occur.
Andrew: So, how had been you productive earlier than with all this happening in your head? How did you are taking the danger of beginning a enterprise with all this happening in your head?
Tyler: I feel I simply took it as a result of I felt like I needed to, you realize?
Andrew: then possibly this was your manner of coping with the nervousness, the, the problems that may undergo your head once you had been anxious.
Tyler: Yeah. You recognize, I simply, I assume I simply felt like I needed to begin the corporate in order that I may earn the additional cash from my household and.
Andrew: you’d have nervousness about what would occur if, after which it was, I’ve started working more durable in order that I can overcome that. Proper. And honestly in America, that’s true. Proper. In case you have a difficulty, proper? What’s, what’s the worst factor that would occur throughout COVID when you get sick, you get higher care. In case you have cash, what may occur to your child due to this?
Nicely, they’ll’t go to highschool along with your cash. You can simply rent a tutor, proper? It does. It does overcome lots of points, which sort of sucks that we’re creating this atmosphere the place some folks have it and different folks don’t not sort of, it does suck, however, um, it is also an actual incentive to hustle and work as a result of there’s no person who’s going to avoid wasting you in any other case.
Nicely, what do you, what are you gonna do subsequent? Proceed to work in movement Ray for some time. It looks as if you mentioned that you just’ve bought a while that you must be there.
Tyler: Yeah, we had been there till, um, August of this 12 months. So not too lengthy. Um, duties are fairly minimal, which is sweet. We’re sort of simply serving to facilitate the combining of the 2 corporations. Um, they usually choose our mind from time to time, however apart from that, you realize, it’s fairly, fairly low key, however yeah, I simply plan on beginning extra corporations.
Sure.
Andrew: What are you pondering of subsequent what’s situation? You’re fascinated by.
Tyler: Uh, all types of issues. Um, I’m fascinated by a sort of search engine. Um, I’ve some loopy concepts that I’m fascinated by pursuing like renewable power kind stuff, in addition to, um, reasonably priced housing kind stuff. I really feel like now I need to. I need to do issues that assist different folks. I felt like with movement array that was making an attempt to assist my household, however now I can afford to attempt to assist different folks.
In order that’s sort of the place my thoughts’s at.
Andrew: I may see that movement array. One of many issues that stands out for me is that it simply has tastes, you realize, the. The movies, the, uh, movement graphics. It simply has, there’s a sensibility. That’s there. That, what are you learning? High quality artwork or some, the factor is as a scholar, is that proper? Or am I unsuitable? Yeah, it has that care.
It has that sense of style and elegance and, um, and understanding additionally not simply what the designer needs and the creator needs, however what the, the. The viewer of their product needs it’s very well finished. And I may see that. And I can think about now that with that sort of care, what you may do subsequent, I’m enthusiastic about this.
I really feel like what you’ve created you might be forward of the sport with this market, however I ponder what different marketplaces individuals are going to leap on. What probably the most thrilling one which I noticed was a market for marijuana and marijuana leaf hyperlink.
Tyler: Was it like CPD or was it precise.
Andrew: stuff that just like the precise plant, as he says and the whole lot else.
So he mentioned all these totally different shops, the one manner that anyone may purchase from them is that if there’s a gross sales rep who goes out and talks to them, nicely, that’s an inefficient technique to do issues. We’ll create a web based market. Each everybody who has product can come into {the marketplace}, everybody who wants it could possibly come into {the marketplace} and purchase, you don’t must ship out reps.
The entire thing is clearly there and he’s doing extremely nicely with that market. Now that’s totally different from what you’ve created, however he’s not dealing with product. He’s simply doing the, the, the digital facet of it, you realize?
Tyler: That’s superior.
Andrew: Proper. And I’d talked to him, he goes, this DeMar, there’s a necessity for these kind of marketplaces for thus many different companies.
He goes, everybody’s fascinated by enterprise to customers. Uh, you’re taking a step greater and pondering enterprise to creator. He says, how about even enterprise to enterprise? Take into consideration all of the totally different gross sales reps that go right into a restaurant. Each one among them must be some market and anyone creates. So the restaurant doesn’t should be restricted to the one who reveals up and occurs to bribe their individual, uh, probably the most, however to.
You recognize, a market with the whole lot that comes together with that, like scores and opinions and extra choices. Anyway, all that to say, I’m actually enthusiastic about what you’ve finished with movement array. Congratulations. I’m trying ahead to having you again on along with your subsequent concept. And, um, I need to thank the 2 sponsors who made this interview occur.
The primary is HostGator. If you happen to’ve bought an concept for a market, go to hostgator.com/mixergy, and the second is a unbalanced. They paid me to sit down and write and I’m hoping you’ll go and test it out. If you happen to go to unbounce.com/mixergy, you’ll see me. You’ll see this information that I created based mostly on how I’ve conversations with folks.
That’s uh, unbounced.com/mixergy. Thanks, Tyler.
Tyler: Thanks a lot, Andrew.
Andrew: Hey, it’s Andrew. Once more, a second after this interview is over. Tyler informed me that I missed one thing and so I hit document. And right here’s what he mentioned. What do you want we may have talked about?
Tyler: I feel there was positively a turning level within the firm.
Andrew: What was that?
Tyler: we, we had began with simply after results templates and my enterprise companion, Eddie was like, Hey, you realize, what do you concentrate on making a template for premiere professional, which is simply the video enhancing software program. And I used to be like, uh, I feel that’s silly, however he’s, you realize, he saved urgent and he’s like, I’m simply gonna make one and we’ll give it away without cost.
And if folks reply to it, then we all know we have now one thing. So he made it. And once we first put it out, you realize, we, we posted it on Reddit, on some video editors, uh, subreddits there and. Everybody hated it. And I feel it was as a result of they had been fearful, proper. They had been fearful it was going to eat into a few of their work as a result of now you’ve these pre-made templates for video editors.
Um, and we went forward and simply began that class. Um, so we got here up with a class for premier professional templates. And since there was no competitors and, you realize, We instantly ranked first for an search engine optimisation, however after all, nobody was actually trying to find it as a result of they didn’t realize it existed but. So, however once we ran advertisements and stuff like that, it simply sort of took off huge time.
Andrew: I see it now in your website, what’s a premiere template?
Tyler: So it’s similar to simply an aftereffects template. Um, There’s some limitations, however you possibly can nonetheless do some fairly superb issues, uh, with the graphics and stuff and premiere. And I feel what, what makes it superb is that the editors that had been utilizing after results templates they had been utilizing after results templates, as a result of they didn’t know the software program, however right here we had been making templates for premiere professional.
Within the software program that they know and, you realize, they didn’t should go and be taught one thing new they usually didn’t should have two totally different software program packages or yeah. They might simply keep of their most important enhancing software program.
Andrew: After which, Oh, so it could nonetheless do the entire intro, however you couldn’t, you couldn’t change say the emblem or the title on it. Might they.
Tyler: Yeah.
Andrew: Oh, so that you discovered a technique to do what folks had been doing with movement and do it within the apps that they had been extra more likely to be utilizing and no,
Tyler: Yeah. And that had been extra broadly used as a result of when somebody’s beginning out with video, they begin with the video enhancing software program, like premier professional or ultimate
Andrew: proper.
Tyler: after which possibly they transfer into after results or movement, one thing a little bit extra sophisticated.
Andrew: I see it now, I used to be pondering that what it was was like a template for making a weblog or a template for making a video, a business, and also you simply add your product picture to switch our product picture or exchange our a day within the life video along with your day within the life video. No, you’re, I’m it proper now.
There’s one thing referred to as an motion opener. It’s a premier professional template. That is the kind of factor that we’d see in, um, Uh, what’s it referred to as? Movement, uh, after results. Is that the, bought it. Wow. All proper. And in order that helped you are taking off after which what, what else did we miss?
Tyler: I imply, primarily that, to be trustworthy, that sort of, yeah, simply took our income, began rising like loopy. After which that’s once we had been in a position to sort of begin constructing the staff out and getting additional assist. As a result of for the longest time it was Eddie and I, for probably the most half, doing the whole lot.
Andrew: after which, you realize what it looks as if additionally that, that the content material creators, I feel we undersold the affect they’d on, on getting site visitors. They might not have been on the market hustling to ship their viewers over to your platform, however. Their content material was working in your website, uh, via search engine optimisation to convey folks in.
Proper. I’m it now that that all of them is now up. You recognize, one other touchdown web page that you just guys became, not only a touchdown web page for the factor that folks. So let’s have a look right here. I’m emblem, typography pack primary, proper? If I’m on the lookout for a emblem typography, I’d find yourself on this web page and see this one.
However on the knee beneath it’s what 1224 totally different associated templates after which promotion for the opposite content material that you’ve got on the location. It looks as if that was useful.
Tyler: Yeah, positively. Yeah. After which after all, simply having the additional content material helps with the conversions and turned it into a fair greater no-brainer.
Andrew: What you don’t get that different marketplaces have, or different creators have is. I don’t suppose that Adobe is sending prospects to you from what I noticed, proper. DaVinci resolve shouldn’t be sending prospects to you. You continue to should get your individual prospects.
Tyler: That’s proper. Yeah. Yeah. As a result of even now, you realize, Adobe has their very own market.
Andrew: Yeah. Versus like Shopify, they, they assist promote their companions. All proper. Um, anything we missed? I’m going to depart this clip within the interview. You go together with it.
Tyler: I’m completely cool with that.
Andrew: All proper. Nicely, thanks.
Tyler: Andrew, this can be a dream come true for positive. And I thanks for, for all the previous interviews you’ve finished and serving to everybody.
Andrew: Thanks. So I feel for lots of people who do it, there’s an upside honestly, after I ask them what their purpose is, they are saying, look, we’re elevating cash. Are we making an attempt to get the message on the market for once we are? Uh, you’re not seeking to get prospects from this. You’re not in a spot the place you’re elevating cash.
It simply, I respect that you just’re right here simply doing the interview to do the interview.
Tyler: Thanks a lot.
Andrew: Thanks.
