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Miranda Perez

Miranda Perez

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Miranda Perez is a third-year, cross-topic career journalist whose work covers business, politics and fashion. She is a news reporter at Built In. Prior to writing for They Got Acquired, Miranda was a Startups/VC reporter at Business Insider and an Inno Reporter at The Boston Business Journals. Miranda has spent the last year covering startups based nationwide and interviewing the investors that fuel them.

Community

They grew a community to millions of creatives before finding a buyer in their network

Launched as a portfolio site, ArtStation became an online community and marketplace for creatives before being acquired by 3D game producer Epic Games.

E-commerce

In just a year, this founder built and sold an e-commerce business to fund his next venture

Travis Campbell built his drop-shipping business, Energy eBikes, during pandemic lockdowns. Just one year later, he sold it for mid-6 figures.

E-commerce

How protein pancakes in a UCLA dorm became a successful e-commerce business

After operating Phoros Nutrition for three years as a solo founder, Marcel Salapa sold his protein pancake mix business to a fitness coaching company.

Education

With a high rank on the Apple App Store and 70K users, this edtech app attracted a buyer

Marco Santonocito launched his test-prep company Ammesso.it as a side project. Interest exploded after the pandemic sparked a transition to online learning.

Ammesso.it team, group photo
SaaS

How Jamm capitalized on the pivot to remote work to attract $1.8M in seed funding — and an acquisition

When companies suddenly pivoted to remote collaboration in early 2020, Jamm was ready. Here’s how it went from launch to sale in less than two years.

SaaS

This serial entrepreneur built tools to streamline work processes — then sold 3 businesses in 6 months

Brian Casel built ProcessKit to document SOPs and automate delegation. Three years later, he was ready to sell — and the exit only took five days.

Brian Casel sits in the foreground with two computer screens behind him to the left
Content

How a side project inspired by Serial grew to 25,000+ subscribers — and a deal with Vox

Launched as a side hustle, Hot Pod became Nick Quah’s full-time job after less than a year. After six years of growth, he sold to Vox Media.

SaaS

In less than a year, this founder bootstrapped and sold an AI copywriting platform

Danny Postma’s Headlime saw “explosive” growth after being featured in TechCrunch, which prompted buyers to inquire about an acquisition.