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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, Greg, thanks for joining me. Hey, thank

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Speaker 1: you Michael. It's so good to join you.

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Speaker 2: Greg Hall, who is chief operating and growth officer for

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Speaker 2: You Version, the world's most popular Bible app. And you

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Speaker 2: guys recently passed an incredible milestone one billion installs over

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Speaker 2: your history.

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Speaker 1: I believe you've been in this edition for a little

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Speaker 1: over two years. Greg.

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Speaker 2: For those who don't know much about you version, though,

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Speaker 2: what is you version's history? And secondly, what is the

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Speaker 2: significance of this one billion install milestone?

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Speaker 1: You bet?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and thank you. I love to tell this story.

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Speaker 3: You version started about seventeen years ago. Our founder Bobby

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Speaker 3: Greenwald was in the Chicago O'Hare airport and he just

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Speaker 3: had a question, I wonder if God could use technology

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Speaker 3: to help me read the Bible. And since that time

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Speaker 3: we have heard a resounding answer is yes, Yes, God

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Speaker 3: can use technology for people to engage with the Bible.

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Speaker 3: So we've reached a billion downloads, the version has been

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Speaker 3: installed in every country on Earth, and we see that.

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Speaker 1: Momentum just continuing to grow.

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Speaker 3: And so from the heart of a question of a

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Speaker 3: an entire global movement. Answer the question that people love

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Speaker 3: engaging with God's word right there in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: App What is the significance of this milestone, because one

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Speaker 2: billion installs. I think if a company, a secular company

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Speaker 2: reached one billion, if anything, they with two three on horn.

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Speaker 2: But I think you guys are wanting to toot somebody

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Speaker 2: else's horn. Go ahead and tell me about that. Go

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because it is so there's a couple of there's

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Speaker 3: a couple of pieces to it, which is one. We

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Speaker 3: really are excited about the fact that God's word is alive.

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Speaker 3: So as we celebrate a billion, one we're really celebrating

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Speaker 3: is a global movement, a hunger that we see from

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Speaker 3: we just get to be such a proud voice. We

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Speaker 3: it more than ever. And so we are excited about

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Speaker 3: the first billion that we've experienced.

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Speaker 1: But we're excited more for what we see God doing

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Speaker 2: The next billion is I guess the goal now, because

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Speaker 2: the next billion means that's one more billion people who

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Speaker 2: the first billion was you know, you guys, I guess

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we feel the momentum right now. We actually think

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the growth this year. You guys are

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Speaker 2: growing this year, and that's one thing that I was fascinating.

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Speaker 2: That's a switch subject to my own subject. But one

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Speaker 2: couple of years down the road, right, that's right, and

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Speaker 2: I'm curious just about the logistics of a celebration. Did

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Speaker 3: So there it was a really fun. We don't do this.

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Speaker 3: We're not event people. So we've had some real experts

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Speaker 3: the logistics weren't that difficult. When you begin to share

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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, what do you think

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Speaker 3: I think there's two things, Michael, that I see right now.

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Speaker 1: That's what we see.

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Speaker 3: The other thing that we really see is we have

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Speaker 3: helping create an incredible experience for you users. But behind that,

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Speaker 3: also we see content creators. We have over eighty thousand

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Speaker 2: For those who don't know, the U Version app is

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Speaker 2: don't know what else you want to add to that.

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Speaker 2: But it's so much more than just a Bible app.

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Speaker 2: So it's worth the downloading and checking out. What led

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Speaker 2: you to you Version? How to Your background is in business?

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Speaker 2: What sparked your interest in wanting to join this team?

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Speaker 3: I'm in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and I'm reading a book.

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Speaker 3: It's actually David Green's leadership, not by the book. And

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Speaker 3: It's you, He's talking about you, and so I just

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Speaker 3: But we're really talking about changing lives. So that thing

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Speaker 1: I get to be a part of the team doing that.

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Speaker 3: So I will tell you the decision to join the

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Speaker 2: Amen to that, and I think that's the young woman

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Speaker 1: Is that right? That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: And so the first two days of November are just

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Speaker 3: We just see God's favor right now. We talked about

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Speaker 2: Not East or not New Year's Day, but just too random.

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Speaker 2: that's exactly And I remember, let's close it up by

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually believe when we look at a billion,

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Speaker 3: We are building a deeper relationship with our partners. Like

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Speaker 3: So there's momentum, But there's momentum one because people are

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Speaker 1: We represent God's word, but to a personal more partners

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Speaker 1: help drive us Hi. Greg, thanks so much, You're brat.

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