George Hartley fits the profile perfectly of your modern day start up tech entrepreneur.
He bootstrapped his first ecommerce company in 2012, co-founded a new business in 2016 perfecting email marketing and is in the process of launching a new tech business relying on blockchain technology.
George originally started marketing at University, however he quickly pivoted back into hid passion in computer science & gained valuable experience working in the emerging app development space in Victoria during a time of massive development growth.
After toying with a few e commerce ideas, George quickly saw a need for art online in Australia, and industry he believe was underderserved & Bluethumb was born, now Australia's largest online art website.
Smartmail was then born out of necessity for Bluethumb in 2016, and is now a standalone venture which combines smarter email marketing for global ecommerce companies.
Moving into his newest venture, combining blockchain technology with email marketing rewarding good behaviour online.
We discuss the joy of creating a business where your success brings clients success, the future of email marketing, the high's and low's of working with blockchain technology, working with global corporations across the World, chatbots, AI and how you sleep being across 3 tech startups, aswell as advice to entrepreneurs looking to get into startup space and much more.
Find out more about George's businesses via the links below:
Bluethumb: https://bluethumb.com.au/
Smartrmail: https://www.smartrmail.com/
Sendy: https://sendy.network/