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Max Rhodes: Building In 24 Months A $500M Business By Addressing The Gap Left By Amazon
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Max Rhodes is the co-founder and CEO of Faire which helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores. The company has raised to dat...
Stefan Heck On Building A $1 Billion Business By Saving Lives With AI
05 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Heck is the cofounder and CEO of Nauto which is an AI technology company on a mission to make driving safer and smarter. Today, the company h...
Doug Winter On Selling His First Startup For $90 Million And Then Building A Billion Dollar Business
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Winter is the co-founder and CEO at Seismic which offers a global sales and marketing enablement solution for improving close rates and deliveri...
Ray Reddy On Selling His Business To Google And Raising $120 Million For His Next Startup
28 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Reddy founded PushLife which was a mobile commerce platform for mobile operators. He sold the company to Google and after spending 4 years there h...
Henry Ward: 300 Investor Rejections And 1 Failed Startup Led To Build A $1 Billion Business
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta, which is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage...
Nick Green: From 50 Investor Rejections To $200 Million In Sales
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nick is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, which is an online retailer with over 2,500 high-quality healthy foods, vitamins, home goods, and bea...
Reggie Aggarwal: From $400,000 In Credit Card Debt To Selling His Business For $1.65 Billion
21 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Reggie Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Cvent which is an event management platform enabling planners to manage all aspects of an event. Reggie rai...
Frank Poore On Selling His Billion Dollar Business 3 Times
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Poore is the founder and CEO of CommerceHub which is a cloud-based e-commerce merchandising, demand generation and order fulfillment platform fo...
Jonah Goodhart: Selling To Oracle For $850 Million And Investing In Over 100 Startups
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonah Goodhart is the CEO and co-founder of Moat, a New York–based analytics company focused on driving success for brand marketers and premium publ...
Jeff Raider On Founding Not One But Two Billion Dollar Companies With Warby Parker And Harry‘s
14 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Raider is a serial entrepreneur. The first company he cofounded was Warby Parker which is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a rev...
Ben Uretsky And Moisey Uretsky: From Humble Beginnings, These Two Russian Brothers Built A Billion Dollar Business In America
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ben and Moisey Uretsky are the cofounders of DigitalOcean which is the third largest hosting company in the world. They have today more than 500 emplo...
Duke Rohlen On Selling 4 Companies For Over $1 Billion Following These 3 Steps
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Duke Rohlen is a serial entrepreneur. He is the cofounder of FoxHollow Technologies (acquired by Ev3 for $780 million), CV Ingenuity (acquired by Covi...
Mohit Aron On Building A $6 Billion Business And Raising $400 Million For His Next Company
07 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mohit Aron was an early employee at Google. He is a serial entrepreneur and previously co-founder of Nutanix which is worth more than $6 billion today...
Gil Elbaz On Google Acquiring His Company And Turning It Into A $15 Billion Business
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gil Elbaz cofounded Applied Semantics which he sold to Google for over $100 Million. Applied Semantics was the creator of Adsense which Google turned ...
Ned Tozun On Raising $100 Million To Provide Access To Power To 2.3 Billion People
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ned Tozun is the cofounder of D.light which is looking to serve the 2.3 billion people that doesn‘t have access to reliable electricity. The compan...
Jyoti Bansal On Waiting 7 Years For His Green Card Before Selling His Business For $3.7 Billion
31 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jyoti Bansal is the cofounder and founding CEO of AppDynamics which develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem r...
Eswar Priyadarshan On Selling His Business To Steve Jobs For $275 Million And Learning One Critical Lesson About Success
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eswar Priyadarshan is a serial entrepreneur. He sold his first company, m-Qube, to Verisign for $275 million. His next company was Quattro Wireless wh...
Peter Rahal On Turning A $10,000 Startup Investment Into A $600 Million Acquisition
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Rahal is the cofounder and founding CEO of RXBAR. He bootstrapped the company from 0 to hundreds of millions in revenue and hundreds of employee...
Cameron Chell On Being Once Homeless And Building A $100 Million Business
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron Chell has been an entrepreneur since age 14 and is currently the CEO of Business Instincts Group, a Venture Creation Firm with a focus on buil...
Alexei Agratchev On Raising $200 Million To Address The Collapse Of Retail
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alexei Agratchev is the cofounder and CEO at RetailNext which enables retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize data about in-st...
Daniel Ramot On Finding The Gap Left By Uber And Raising Over $450 Million
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Ramot is the cofounder of Via which provides on-demand transit on a mass scale. The company has raised so far over $450 million from investors ...
Rick Stollmeyer On Selling For $1.9 Billion The Company That He Created Out Of His Own Garage
17 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Stollmeyer co-founded MINDBODY in his garage in 2001. He raised over $100 million before leading the IPO for the company. Some or his investors i...
Matt Salzberg On Creating A Billion Dollar Business By Selling Meal Kits
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Salzberg founded Blue Apron in 2011 and served as President & CEO for its first six years. After raising $200 million from the likes of Bessemer,...
Alex Mashinsky On Achieving $3 Billion In Exits And Being One Of The Most Feared By Banks
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Mashinsky is on his eighth startup company, Celsius Network, which has already raised $50 million via an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). He’s also...
Henrique Dubugras On Creating A $1.1 Billion Company At 22 Years Old
10 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henrique Dubugras is the founder and CEO of Brex. The company is valued at over $1.1 billion and has raised over $220 million. Current investors inclu...
Robbie Cape: What This Former Microsoft Employee Is Doing With $86 Million To Change Lives
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robbie Cape is the cofounder of 98point6 which combines deep technology with the expertise of board-certified physicians to provide text-based primary...
Guy Kawasaki: 3 Counter Intuitive Principles Learned From Working With Steve Jobs
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an online magazine that offers articles about popular topics. He is also a founding partner at Garage Te...
Todd Olson On Raising $100 Million And Hiring 600 Employees Outside Of Major Tech Hubs
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Olson is the founder and CEO of Pendo, which is a product cloud creator for digital products and data-driven product teams with headquarters in R...
David Klein: From Living In His Office For Years To Landing $4 Billion In Funding
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Klein is the CEO and CoFounder of CommonBond, a leading marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides fina...
Jon Carder: From Running A Hot Dog Stand To Becoming A Millionaire At Age 27
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Carder is the founder of Mogl - a frictionless online to offline rewards program & Empyr - an online to offline ad platform. Mogl/Empyr has raised...
Sam Yagan: From Startup Failure To Leading A $400M IPO That Transformed Online Dating
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Yagan is currently the CEO of ShopRunner which has raised over $100M from the likes of Alibaba Group or August Capital. Previously, he served as C...
Josh Abramson: Declining A $9 Million Acquisition At Age 18 And Building One Of The Most Trafficked Sites
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Abramson is the cofounder of Connected Ventures which was the parent company under which he cofounded CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and BustedTees. IAC p...
Jon Stein: From Launching In An Economic Downturn To Managing $15 Billion
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Stein is the cofounder of online investment advisor Betterment. One of the first FinTech companies, and a startup that launched in the pit of the ...
Randy Hetrick: From Being A Navy SEAL To Creating A $50 Million Business
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Randy Hetrick is a former Special Forces Commander and the founder of the hyper-successful TRX fitness brand. TRX is a $50 million business with produ...
Eric Ryan: From Zero To $100 Million A Year In Sales Within 24 Months Of Launching
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Ryan has launched two very successful ventures. These are Method Products and Olly. Together they’ve already raised more than $34 million in fu...
Roger Dickey: From A Facebook Job Rejection To Raising $32 Million From Celebrity Investors
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Dickey is the founder of Gigster, a venture-backed start-up that gives clients a way to systematically outsource software development to a large...
Eugenio Pace: Bouncing Back From Failed Startup To Raising $110 Million From Top VCs
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eugenio Pace is the cofounder of Auth0, a technology company that builds a suite of modern platforms for developers. The company has raised to date $1...
Anthemos Georgiades: One Lesson That Led To Raise $90 Million From The Top Venture Capital Firms
29 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthemos Georgiades is the co-founder and CEO of Zumper, the largest startup in the rental industry. The company has raised $90 million from investors...
Martin Rawls-Meehan On Bootstrapping His Startup From Zero To Over $100 Million In Revenue
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Rawls-Meehan is the cofounder and CEO at Reverie. He has taken a different route to generating $100 million in revenue a year with over 150 emp...
Heini Zachariassen On Raising Over $55 Million To Disrupt A 6,000 Year Old Industry
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Heini Zachariassen is the founder behind Vivino. He has raised for the company over $55 million to date. The app now has 33 million users, looking up ...
Kevin O‘Connor: Selling For $1.1 Billion By Following One Simple Rule
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin O‘Connor founded Double Click, the advertising machine now owned by Google. A part of a bundle of services that Google ended up paying around ...
Julie Clark On Investing $15,000 In Her Startup And Selling It For $25 Million
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Clark is the founder of the Baby Einstein brand. A company she built from scratch, to being bought by Disney for $25M, and becoming a $300M a ye...
Michael Ellenbogen: From Corporate America To Startups And Landing Bill Gates As An Investor
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Ellenbogen built an exited Reveal Imaging where he raised over $20M and sold to SAIC giving investors an 8x multiple of returns. Now he has co...
Thomas Korte On Helping Entrepreneurs Raise Over $1.4 Billion And Building Angel Pad
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Korte is one of the founders at one of the consistently top ranked startup accelerators. They’re always up there with names like 500 Startups...
Josh Hix: From 200 Investor Rejections To A $300 Million Acquisition
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Hix is one of those founders who just seems to have been born with the entrepreneurial spirit. He’s been featured on Shark Tank, raised almost ...
Michael Litt: From Selling Firecrackers To Landing $70 Million For His Canadian Startup
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In an exclusive interview for the DealMakers podcast, Michael Litt revealed how he accelerated his startup, landed $70 Million from some of the most e...
Fabrice Grinda: From $100,000 In Debt To Hundreds of Millions In Exits
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With over 400 startup investments and 150 plus exits Fabrice Grinda is unquestionably one of the most experienced entrepreneurs and investors on the p...
Kevin Ryan Shares His Formula To Create Several Billion Dollar Companies
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Few tech entrepreneurs have created a billion-dollar company. Kevin Ryan, has created not one but multiple billion-dollar companies. Ryan co-founded D...
Will Herman On Selling Your Business Twice For Over $700M
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this exclusive interview on the DealMakers Podcast, Will Herman reveals his own struggles and successes with launching and fundraising for his earl...
Dane Madsen: Turning A 100 Year Old Business Model Into A $100 Million Company
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Co-founder of YellowPages.com Dane Madsen recently appeared as a special guest on the DealMakers podcast. In this exclusive interview he revealed the ...
Rand Fishkin On Building An SEO Empire And Overcoming Depression After Raising $30 Million
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a new episode of the DealMakers podcast, Rand Fishkin shares the ups and downs of building a hyper growth startup. Rand also shares the process of ...
Ander Michelena On Selling His Business For $190 Million After Leaving His Corporate Career
21 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the greatest things to witness today is not just an entrepreneur accomplish a successful fundraising round or exit, but to then evolve into bec...
Carlos Reines On How To Raise $20 Million From Top US Investors As A Foreign Entrepreneur
20 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a new episode of the DealMakers podcast Carlos Reines shares the journey and the struggles involved with raising capital as a founder in a regulate...