by Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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 Tory Gregory | 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...
by Tory Gregory | Nov 21, 2022 | The Exit
Farhad accidentally got into the startup ecosystem and now has 14 years of entrepreneurial experience under his belt. He co-founded his first business and built it with the small investment of $30K, ultimately growing to $6M in annual revenue. When he exited that...
by Tory Gregory | Nov 14, 2022 | The Exit
Natalie is a serial business builder and exiter having co-founded 6 businesses. Having recently completed her latest exit, Natalie took a well earned break, which she believes is key to recharging and having the energy to take on the next entrepreneurial endeavor....
by Tory Gregory | Nov 7, 2022 | The Exit
In Meagan’s perspective, the future of acquisition is in communities, and this is exactly why her first business, an electronic music company was acquired. This was Meagan’s first exit, the business was a non-traditional, cash-heavy operation, nothing like what her...
