8 Figures

An investor connected the founder of calendar app Cron with productivity platform Notion, leading to a sale and integration of their complementary products.

“Everything we did was more about effort than money,” WhiskerCloud founder Adam Greenbaum said. He shared how he grew the agency to 2,000+ clients before selling.

His hospitalization was the wake-up call he needed, but it took Streamline Marketing’s founder more than a year to find the right buyer.

ReFirm Labs co-founder Terry Dunlap shares his story — from getting arrested for hacking at 17 to selling his IoT security company to Microsoft.

“We had a good idea, and we had a team that had the right connections in an industry where relationships drive pretty much everything,” said Charlie Lieu, AirTerra’s co-founder.

It took a few tries. They made many mistakes. But eventually, these two entrepreneurs found success with two social media platforms that help people build their brands.

Four founders came together to build Venio Systems, an e-discovery platform for law firms. Ten years later, they weren’t all convinced it was time to sell.

As the role of influencers heated up, these young entrepreneurs made it easy to connect with Gen Z. Global brands lined up, and the company brought in 8 figures of revenue by the time it sold in 2022.