“Patrick is the founder and CEO of profitwell which he bootstrapped and sold without any funding for over 200 million dollars”
ProfitWell
By Patrick Campbell
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“so I use profitable for my newsletter I just plugged it into my stripe account”
“profitwell is another group that I've friends at and a lot of respect for them and the content that they've put out”
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