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Lyle Pratt

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  1. “Years before, but you know, it got popular as VoIP got popular. And SIP is essentially the most widely used protocol for handling voice and video and messaging worldwide. If you make a phone call from your AT&T cell phone and call like a Verizon cell phone,”

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  2. “IPO'd was a huge IPO. I guess long story short with that was that Tillio ended up becoming one of Intelligent's biggest customers. So I ended up getting to work a lot with Tulio and a lot in that industry over the five years that I worked for them after they acquired Better Voice.”

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  3. “But we quickly sort of figured out that Fulio's API, Tulio's pricing was too expensive to scale sort of a wide label of more wholesalish business. So what we did is we ended up cloning Filio's voice and messaging API functionality on top of an open source stack. And it was definitely a get your hands dirty and avoid in telecom world with SIP and all the rest of the VoIP protocols. But it ended up working out really great because in 2016, the largest wholesale telecom provider in the United States called Intelliquent at the time they were a public company on the NASDAQ. They acquired our company for our API stack. So essentially they wanted to be able to compete with Twilio in that space as it was growing massively.”

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  4. “So I was sort of hyping tinkering with their APIs. And I guess long story short, we built one of the first online only sort of exclusively online small business phone systems. And we built it originally on top of Twilio's API. And at the time, there was a ton of new businesses coming out to sort of serve small and medium-sized businesses with these sort of internet systems. We got a lot of interest from sort of smaller regional players that had, they were serving regional business clients and they wanted to be able to offer their service online and offer these slick user interfaces and mobile apps and stuff for interacting with your phone system. And so we got into essentially doing white label stuff under BV. So we would power some other person's business with our platform.”

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  5. “They were sort of one of the first products that let you programmatically control phone calls and send messages and construct voice IDRs or like voice phone menus, you know, and things like that. They got started that I guess originally at about 2008, 2009”

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  6. “I guess I was in college. No, it was a college roommate, you know. So I've been kind of tinkering with websites and building stuff like that for quite a long time. I guess long story short with that, we sold that. Noah moved out to the Bay Area and did more startups. I completed a couple of master's degrees at school and then ended up moving to Texas. And then we get to the part where I decided to start better voice. In fact, it started as a completely different company with a completely different idea that we ended up pivoting away from, as you often do when you're attempting to provide value to the marketplace, which is what a startup is, you know, fundamentally. But with Better Voice, it was when Twilio, you know, the Twilio APIs, I don't know if you know what Twilio is.”

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  7. “Yeah, I guess maybe we should back up even a little further. I've always sort of been interested in entrepreneurship and always sort of been, I don't know, self-taught programmer. And, you know, even when I was in college, I ran a little starting up a website called BG Pro. At the time, it was a place for people that made mods for video games and exclusive content, sort of custom content for video games and things like that to share their content with the world. And we even had ways for them to monetize that content. We would let them, you know, include their own absence, AdWords API key so that, you know, any downloads or visitors on those pages would earn them money. And we grew that myself and Noah Hayes actually one of my co-founders at VDU. We grew that to get to about a million and a half unique visitors a month. Hold on.”

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