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and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Commission File No.: 001-40079
Transcript of Chris Pavlovski’s interview with Maria Bartiromo
Link: https://rumble.com/vqd7kp-maria-bartiromo-discusses-rumbles-relative-size-vs-youtube-and-its-plans-to.html
Maria Bartiromo: Well, welcome back. Free speech video platform Rumble taking its challenge to Big Tech to the market. The company is going public merging with Cantor Fitzgerald CF Acquisition Corp. It will list on the NASDAQ under the ticker CFVI after the deal closes in the second quarter of next year. Joining me right now is the CEO of Rumble Chris Pavlovski. Chris, congratulations to you taking the company public. Good for you. What are you going to do with the money raised?
00:00:30 Chris Pavlovski: Thank you for having me, Maria. So we bootstrapped this business in 2013, and what we’ve seen in the last year has been an incredible growth story. We went from an early Q1 2010 one million monthly active users to Q3 2021 to 36 monthly active users. And one of the things that kind of gets lost is that the majority of those users actually happen in the United States. And when comparing against YouTube, we have roughly about 15 percent of YouTube’s 200 million users on Rumble on a monthly active user’s basis.
00:01:07 And when you put that up against TikTok, that’s about we’re growing at a similar rate as the fastest growing platform that the internet has ever seen, and that’s TikTok. So with the – the merge with CFVI, the main reason why we did that is to maintain our independence, to take this business more internationally, and to raise that $400 million to really kind of build a super robust infrastructure and Cloud services business that can compete against the likes of Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
00:01:41 Maria Bartiromo: And – and how – how reliant will you need to be on some of these big tech companies? You know, you look at a situation like what Parler faced where it had to, you know, answer to what Apple wanted to be on the Apple store, and obviously other major social media companies, as well as the infrastructure of big tech. What kind of reliance do you expect to have on big tech who may not want Rumble around?
00:01:41 Chris Pavlovski: Yeah, no, absolutely. And like I – like I think I mentioned before on this show, like, when we started this business, we did it the real old-fashioned way. We’ve never relied on a single Cloud infrastructure out there. We’ve always kind of built this the old-fashioned way with our own hardware, putting it in our own data centers.
Maria Bartiromo: Yeah.
Chris Pavlovski: And really building out our pops across the United States. And – and one of the – one of the –
Maria Bartiromo: So let me ask you –
Chris Pavlovski: - unique things about –
Maria Bartiromo: Yeah. Go ahead.
00:02:41 Chris Pavlovski: Yeah. Go ahead. No, one of the unique things about what we’re doing here is that we’re building a, like, a Cloud services business, and we’re building a video platform that’s going to be completely –
Maria Bartiromo: Yeah.
Chris Pavlovski: - immune to the cancel culture and the activists out there. We’re – we’re really taking the internet to – to its roots by restoring it to its –
Maria Bartiromo: Yeah.
Chris Pavlovski: - roots, and really defending that free and open internet by building this robust infrastructure and this robust video platform to deliver Cloud services and to deliver video and voices across the world.
00:03:11 Maria Bartiromo: That is just terrific. I mean, Chris, that’s what you want to see. You want to see scale organically rather than new rules and regulations coming from government but get the competition strong to face off against some of these other companies that are – are canceling conservatives. But Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick said that Rumble will not be a competitor to President Trump’s TRUTH Social Platform and that you have a deal for distribution, Chris.
00:03:40 We know the news today is that Devin Nunes, who would have been the Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, is going to leave Congress at the end of the year and become the CEO of President Trump’s new company which he is going public with through the Digital World Acquisition. Your thoughts on the competition with – or – or non-competition with – with what’s happening in the Trump TRUTH Social business.
Chris Pavlovski: Yeah, no, congratulations to Devin Nunes. And I don’t know if you remember, but it was Devin that came to Rumble first when this enormous growth took off.
00:04:17 He – he was one of the very first people to – to join Rumble. And what – what we –
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Maria Bartiromo: That’s right.
Chris Pavlovski: - noticed at Rumble was – was that, you know, in five years he only had 10,000 subscribers on Rumble, and then within three months of being on Rumble, the Congressman had over 300,000 subscribers, really demonstrating the – the growth that could happen on Rumble. But when it comes to TRUTH and the Trump Media & Technology Group, I can confirm that we do have a partnership with them without getting into the details, but we are definitely not going to be competing against them.
00:04:49 It will be a cohesive relationship, and we’ll both be working together.
Maria Bartiromo: Well, I love what you’re doing, Chris. Congrats to you. We’ll be watching the development and certainly the growth story. I’ll be there as well on Rumble. Chris Pavlovski joining us. Thank you, sir. We’ll be watching. Stay with us. We’ll be right back.
Chris Pavlovski: Thank you very much for having me.
End of recording.
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