Seed to Harvest Alex Bean on Selling Divvy for $2.5B, Early Hustles, & Building Factory for Good | Ep 96
Alex Bean, co-founder of Divvy (acquired by BILL.com for $2.5B), joins us to share his founder journey - from teaching ski lessons at 16 to starting multiple scrappy businesses, to scaling Divvy into a fintech giant.
In this episode, we talk about the lessons learned from both early failures and billion-dollar success, what not to do when launching a company, and how he's now building Factory to support other founders.
This episode includes:
• His earliest business ideas (including one called “Plum Tree Jewelry”)
• Why chasing margins doesn’t work
• Divvy’s scale-up and acquisition journey
• What he's building now with Factory for Good
• Advice to young founders just getting started
Reach out to Paige:
paige@behindgeniusventures.com
Twitter/X: https://x.com/paigefinnn
Website: https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/
Connect with Alex:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbean/
Factory for Good– https://factoryforgood.com/
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