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Speaker 1: business flash. This is taking stock with Pim Fox and

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Speaker 1: Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio to entrepreneurs who met at

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Speaker 1: the Wharton Business School and went on to start a company.

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Speaker 1: An innovative smartphone app that connects travelers with live translators

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Speaker 1: all over the globe. Verbalize It has some big news

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Speaker 1: today and we're very happy to welcome to the show now.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Frankel, the CEO of Verbalize It, to tell us

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Speaker 1: about their new relationship with Smartling, ran great to have you,

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Speaker 1: great to be here, Thanks for welcoming back. Well, so,

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Speaker 1: first of all, tell people a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: where you are. I think it's fascinating that you've got

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Speaker 1: a deal on shark Tank back in that didn't pan out,

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Speaker 1: but some advice you've got on shark Tank really helped

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Speaker 1: needed to grow this company. We did the experience that

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Speaker 1: allowed us to pivot from a purely consumer application play

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Speaker 1: into more and more lucrative and more powerful business internationalization

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Speaker 1: experience UM short of It, which allowed us to help

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Speaker 1: companies of all shapes and sizes translate all of their

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Speaker 1: content over any medium of communication in order to facilitate

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Speaker 1: international expansion. Hey, Ryan, I was just looking at the

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Speaker 1: report from the U. S. Bureau of Statistics that says

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Speaker 1: that the translation industry is expected to grow by forty

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Speaker 1: two It's the time frame they use is twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if you could describe some of the

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Speaker 1: applications some of the customer uses for verbalize it. Sure, so, Pam,

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Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head. This is quickly approaching,

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Speaker 1: actually at forty billion dollars a year industry for outsourced

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Speaker 1: language translation, and the types of expenditures are really being

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Speaker 1: driven by companies across the spectrum, So your traditional large

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Speaker 1: enterprise organizations all the way down to today's startups and

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Speaker 1: everyone in between. And the types of use case is

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Speaker 1: really ranged from you know, a company might want to

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Speaker 1: start translating their marketing documents to evaluate demand overseas, and

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Speaker 1: months later, they might need to completely localize their website,

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Speaker 1: translate their mobile apps, even subtitle and caption their videos.

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Speaker 1: So it really is that it's an exciting time to

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Speaker 1: be in that industry. And I just and I just

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Speaker 1: want to make offer you the chance to make it

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Speaker 1: clear that we're not talking about some kind of machine

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Speaker 1: translation algorithm. You're talking about connecting people. It's people to people.

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Speaker 1: We really believe that the best quality translations, both in

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Speaker 1: terms of the accuracy of the translation itself but also

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Speaker 1: the actual context, really does come from from other humans.

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Speaker 1: And so the platform that is today smartling um that

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Speaker 1: we are now part of, is really a technology platform

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Speaker 1: that connects those in need of language translation with a

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Speaker 1: vetted community of translators all over the group. So how

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Speaker 1: much do you charge for your service? How how where

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Speaker 1: of people using it? And how big do you expect

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Speaker 1: to get? Well, the Smartling company of which we are

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Speaker 1: now a part is just around a hundred fifty employees

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Speaker 1: and growing by leaps and bounds. And while we can't

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Speaker 1: you that there are hundreds of businesses of all shapes

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Speaker 1: translation needs, ranging from your one off single document translation

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Speaker 1: subsideally translation, Ryan, Why sell the company to Smartling? Why

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Speaker 1: become part of them? Why not grow the company and

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Speaker 1: go public? That's a great question, paim we Um. We

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Speaker 1: found the per a partner and acquir in smartling, and

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Speaker 1: it really enables us to, you know, achieve our longstanding

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Speaker 1: vision of breaking down language barriers to make the world

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Speaker 1: a more connected place. And the combination of our businesses

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Speaker 1: really does bring together what I like to call you

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Speaker 1: in the language translation industry. But ultimate really creates the

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Speaker 1: ultimate platform for helping businesses go global. So how big

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Speaker 1: Is that one of the main growth areas. Chinese has

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Speaker 1: been big? Japanese is huge, Korean, even Brazilian Portuguese, you

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Speaker 1: know obviously, which has been a big We have got

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Speaker 1: really nice uptick in demand for these other languages as well.

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Speaker 1: Ryan in using a new technology to bring these language

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Speaker 1: about incorporating them into actual applications that would run on

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Speaker 1: a it's a very interesting question of them. We're seeing

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Speaker 1: a lot of companies today actually looking to translate and

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Speaker 1: localize their apps. Um. And so we'll see with with

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Speaker 1: the smart Wing platform is the ability for app developers

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Speaker 1: and app first companies to literally link into a PI

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Speaker 1: is Smartling, enabling them to constantly push updates to their

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Speaker 1: apps and seeing that they receive back translation in any

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Speaker 1: given language. Finally, any advice to would be entrepreneurs, no

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Speaker 1: matter what business, no matter what industry they're in. UM,

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Speaker 1: I truly believe one of the best piece of advice

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Speaker 1: the with the leadership team with Jack Welby, a smart

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Speaker 1: Ling and it's a it's a great example of how

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Speaker 1: we got to where we are today. Thanks very much.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Franklin is the chief executive and the co founder

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Speaker 1: of Verbalize It now being acquired by Smartling International Translation Services.

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