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Mitch Thrower

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

We started Code in the end of 2015-2016 as one of the projects in the incubator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

It really became kind of a core focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

to really pour our code and launch and build an enterprise platform for events really around 17, 18.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

So those are the acquisitions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

So that was when we acquired a company in the civic space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

That was all, even though the entity is events.com, that was the kind of in and out of the incubator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Yeah, it was myself, a gentleman named Steven Partridge and some people that we'd worked with before taking a look at different ventures that could catch fire and really have an enormous

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

opportunity to scale, build something big, and the events.com domain name is one that we acquired from CBS, believe it or not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

It was originally owned by Bill Gross, not PIMCO Bill Gross, but Idealab Bill Gross.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

What year was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Oh, goodness.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

I don't know the exact year, but that I can, I can find out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

It probably was 13, 14.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

That's exactly it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

It's really what, which of these will catch fire and where can we really

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

develop a working thesis that will be scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Okay.