Episode 227

Three Exits over 35 Years: Zoe Kalar’s Global Success Story

This week on The Exit: Zoe Kalar, founder and CEO of WeAre8, shares insights from her remarkable journey through three successful exits over 35 years, including one for $100 million.

Starting her first company at age 21, Zoe discusses the challenges of early exits, including painful earn-outs and misaligned values with acquirers.

She shares crucial lessons from her experiences across different markets – from her first bootstrapped company in Australia to building a transformative business in China, and later creating a data infrastructure company that became the backbone of media trading in the US.

Currently leading WeAre8, a safe social media platform that shares advertising revenue with users, she stresses that successful exits are less about the financial outcome and more about the journey and the team.

For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.

Personal Bio: 

Zoe Kalar, is a visionary tech entrepreneur who has built four transformative businesses over the last 35 years including NY based Standard Media Index, the world’s largest media data business.

As founder of WeAre8, Zoe is shifting the power of big tech back into the hands of the people.

Zoe’s mission is to inspire, empower and enable a billion people to make a positive impact every day through a revolutionary social experience, while redirecting the $500bn ad market to people, publishers, nonprofits and planet projects. WeAre8 is the future of social, one that connects, inspires, and serves humanity.

Websites: https://www.weare8.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-kalar/

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An entrepreneur, content creator, and investor based in sunny Tampa, Florida. In 2015, while living in San Francisco, Steve sold his first fintech startup LendLayer to Max Levchin’s (founder of PayPal) consumer finance company Affirm.

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