by Kate Hall | Jan 30, 2023 | The Exit
Sara didn’t know that answering an ad on Craigslist for a cannabis agency would result in her buying, building and eventually selling that same company. The business grew to become one of the first cannabis consulting businesses in the USA, working to get licensing...
by Kate Hall | Jan 23, 2023 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Zeynep Ilgaz migrated from Turkey 25 years ago with two suitcases and $5K to her name and made the American dream a reality. Not coming from a biotech background, Zeynep never thought she would start a medical device company but she saw an...
by Danica Jorge | Jan 17, 2023 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: When Jason co-founded gaming start-up PopCap, never in his wildest dreams did he imagine exiting to EA for $650MM. The business started out as three guys creating games to sell back to the big gaming companies, but they quickly had to rethink...
by Danica Jorge | Jan 9, 2023 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Scared by unceremoniously losing her job when the newspaper she was working at shut down, Kim vowed to start her own business so she would never need to rely on anyone else again. The result was a 16 year journey of building an Australia-wide...
by Danica Jorge | Jan 3, 2023 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Cecilia Zywicki is a seasoned EdTech entrepreneur, fascinated by innovation around learning. Cecilia’s first business, Ranku, was planned out on the back of a napkin over martinis in San Francisco with a friend. Ranku was a two-sided marketplace...
by Danica Jorge | Dec 28, 2022 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: The minute Dru left college he was on the hunt for an opportunity. His desperation took him to a dusty barn in Dallas with an old printing press and a contact written on a napkin for 49% of a business that at the time wasn’t operational. This...
by Danica Jorge | Dec 19, 2022 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Touraj wrote the book on successfully exiting a business. Quickly realizing his passion for creating products, after working at a VC firm which he describes as an on-the-job MBA, Touraj left to start his entrepreneur journey. Starting and...
by Danica Jorge | Dec 12, 2022 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Scott had the elusive unicorn exit when he sold Workfront to Adobe for $1.5 billion. From teaching seminary, his career took a dramatic turn when he fell into marketing, before teaching himself to code in the very early days of the internet. He...
by Danica Jorge | Dec 5, 2022 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Fintech guru, Daniel Bessmert, shares his experience of working in big financial institutions like Citibank, Visa, and Paypal for 10 years, to deciding to go out on his own, founding, raising ~$200K, scaling, and exiting 3 companies, one of...
by Danica Jorge | Nov 28, 2022 | The Exit
This week on The Exit: Denise Hammel Isaacson shares what dedication and a desire for change can achieve, and how to scale intellectual property through technology. Denise built an organizational culture consulting company, scaling it to 65 countries before...
