DealMakers

Frank Poore is the founder and CEO of CommerceHub which is a cloud-based e-commerce merchandising, demand generation and order fulfillment platform for retailers and brands. Frank successfully built an industry-leading company that created 3 liquidity events for shareholders and employees - first through a sale to Liberty Media/QVC in 2006, second via public offering in 2016 (Nasdaq:CHUBK), and through a take-private sale of the company to GTCR and Sycamore Partners for $1.1 billion in 2018. The post Frank Poore On Selling His Billion Dollar Business 3 Times first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Frank Poore On Selling His Billion Dollar Business 3 Times appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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 publishers. Moat raised $70 million from investors like First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Lerer Hippeau, Insight Partners, or Founder Collective to name a few. Moat was ultimately acquired by Oracle for a reported $850 million. Jonah was the founding investor and board member of Right Media (acquired by Yahoo for a reported $680 million), founding partner of WGI Group and co-founder of Billions.org. Jonah was also a member of Mayor Bloomberg’s Council on Technology and Innovation. The post Jonah Goodhart: Selling To Oracle For $850 Million And Investing In Over 100 Startups first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Jonah Goodhart: Selling To Oracle For $850 Million And Investing In Over 100 Startups appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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 revolutionary price. With over 2,000 employees, the company has raised $300 million from top tier investors at what is rumored to be a valuation of almost $2 billion. Jeff is currently the cofounder and CEO at Harry‘s which allows users to buy razors, German engineered blades and shaving creams. The company employs over 1,000 people and has raised $375 million with a valuation of over $1 billion. The post Jeff Raider On Founding Not One But Two Billion Dollar Companies With Warby Parker And Harry‘s first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Jeff Raider On Founding Not One But Two Billion Dollar Companies With Warby Parker And Harry‘s appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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 employees and over $200 million in annual revenues. They have raised for their business $123 million at a valuation rumored to be over $1 billion. Some of the investors include Andreessen Horowitz, IA Ventures, or Trinity Capital to name a few. The post Ben Uretsky And Moisey Uretsky: From Humble Beginnings, These Two Russian Brothers Built A Billion Dollar Business In America first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Ben Uretsky And Moisey Uretsky: From Humble Beginnings, These Two Russian Brothers Built A Billion Dollar Business In America appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Duke Rohlen is a serial entrepreneur. He is the cofounder of FoxHollow Technologies (acquired by Ev3 for $780 million), CV Ingenuity (acquired by Covidien for $300 million), Spirox, Inc. (acquired by Entellus Medical for over $200 million), and EPIX Therapeutics (acquired by Medtronic for $350 million). His most recent company is Ajax Health which will source and provide operational and financial capabilities to a diversified portfolio of emerging medical device companies. The company has raised over $120 million from investors such as KKR. The post Duke Rohlen On Selling 4 Companies For Over $1 Billion Following These 3 Steps first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Duke Rohlen On Selling 4 Companies For Over $1 Billion Following These 3 Steps appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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. Nutanix is a virtualized data center platform that provides disruptive datacenter infrastructure solutions for implementing enterprise-class. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Cohesity which delivers the industry’s first hyperconverged secondary storage for backup, test/dev, file services, and analytic datasets. He has raised for Cohesity over $400 million from investors like Sequoia, Accel, Battery, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital, Trinity Ventures, Qualcomm, or SoftBank to name a few. The post Mohit Aron On Building A $6 Billion Business And Raising $400 Million For His Next Company first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Mohit Aron On Building A $6 Billion Business And Raising $400 Million For His Next Company appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Gil Elbaz cofounded Applied Semantics which he sold to Google for over $100 Million. Applied Semantics was the creator of Adsense which Google turned into a $15 billion business representing 23% of its total revenue. Elbaz most recently founded Factual which provides accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide. The company has raised over $100 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Felicis, Founder Collective, or Data Collective.  The post Gil Elbaz On Google Acquiring His Company And Turning It Into A $15 Billion Business first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Gil Elbaz On Google Acquiring His Company And Turning It Into A $15 Billion Business appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

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 company has raised over $100 million from investors such as Omydiar Network, DFJ, or Garage Technology Ventures. The social enterprise has 1,000 employees and 3,000-5,000 commissioned agents, is generating about $100 million of revenue a year, and experiencing 40-50% growth annually. The post Ned Tozun On Raising $100 Million To Provide Access To Power To 2.3 Billion People first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Ned Tozun On Raising $100 Million To Provide Access To Power To 2.3 Billion People appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Jyoti Bansal is the cofounder and founding CEO of AppDynamics which develops application performance management (APM) solutions that deliver problem resolution for highly distributed applications.. He raised over $220 million from top tier investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Battery Ventures, or Lightspeed. AppDynamics got acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion. Jyoti went on to launch his own fund, Unusual Ventures, and his most recent company, Harness, which is a Continuous Delivery as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. The post Jyoti Bansal On Waiting 7 Years For His Green Card Before Selling His Business For $3.7 Billion first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Jyoti Bansal On Waiting 7 Years For His Green Card Before Selling His Business For $3.7 Billion appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.

Eswar Priyadarshan is a serial entrepreneur. He sold his first company, m-Qube, to Verisign for $275 million. His next company was Quattro Wireless which he sold to Steve Jobs himself also for $275 million. His most recent company is BotCentral which was recently acquired by LivePerson for an undisclosed amount.  The post Eswar Priyadarshan On Selling His Business To Steve Jobs For $275 Million And Learning One Critical Lesson About Success first appeared on Alejandro Cremades. The post Eswar Priyadarshan On Selling His Business To Steve Jobs For $275 Million And Learning One Critical Lesson About Success appeared first on Alejandro Cremades.