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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.

SaaS

These founders competed against DocuSign and still landed an 8-figure exit

The owners of SignRequest built a product even though there was already a big competitor in the space — and it led them to an acquisition.

Content

Can you grow a content company on a topic you know nothing about? This entrepreneur did

Serial entrepreneur Roman van Meer scaled a Soap Opera blog to 800,000 email subscribers and a “nearly 8-figure” exit.

Gaming

Wordle’s founder built the game for his partner, never expecting millions of players

Josh Wardle built a simple word puzzle game that went viral — and then attracted a 7-figure acquisition offer from The New York Times.

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