Starting a business can be risky, especially because half of them fail within the first five years. But Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, a global company with over 1,200 employees, says that waiting to begin can be worse than failing. Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur worth over $200 million who recently launched vYve, a four-month, … Read more
Leah Solivan was an IBM engineer, working on business collaboration tools like Lotus Notes, when she found her million-dollar startup idea: an online marketplace connecting customers with “taskers” who could run errands or do household chores for them at a price. The idea arose from Solivan running out of dog food one night and asking … Read more
Even though there’s a .00006% chance that a startup will reach a $1 billion valuation, Silicon Valley investor Mike Maples Jr. has placed early bets on more than one startup that beat the odds. Across his nearly two-decade investing career, Maples found that startups he invested in early that are now worth over a billion … Read more
Austin Russell is a Stanford University dropout who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2020 at the age of 25 when his startup Luminar went public. Luminar creates sensing technology to help cars navigate their surroundings; Volvo, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz use the sensors. Russell, now 29, spoke on the Masters of Scale podcast with … Read more
Noah Kagan shared how he started AppSumo, a “Groupon for software,” in one weekend in a new podcast episode. The startup cost was $60; AppSumo earned $80 million last year and Kagan is still its CEO. In 2010, Kagan was 28 years old and had already experienced what it was like to be the 30th … Read more