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Sold My Startup for $780M: the Good, Bad, Ugly with Jack Smith, Vungle
Billion Dollar Moves™ with Sarah Chen-Spellings | Global Venture Capital
English - June 18, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness venture capital billion dollar moves startup entrepreneurship personal growth business hacks Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we went deep on the growing pains of a startup, from PR nightmares to co-founder breakups, the challenge of shifting from a scarcity to growth mindset, and so much more with Jack Smith, serial entrepreneur & investor. @_jacksmith has co-founded multiple startups: Vungle, Coin, Shyp and advised many others. We talk everything from his startup outgrowing him to his lack of focus getting him to the right place & right time.
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👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Jack's curiosity from a tender age carried him through as an entrepreneur
- The value of an incubator - should you join one?
- What it takes to get to product-market fit, and then scale
- What it means to outgrow your startup, and what you can do
- The harsh reality of a startup's PR nightmare
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:29 - Jack's early start in entrepreneurship
05:03 - Mediaroots evolution into Vungle
08:36 - Hacking screen record & how that led to San Francisco
10:49 - Should I join an incubator? Jack's learning from AngelPad
16:31 - The crappy engineer, launching to the next few stages
21:33 - What metrics mattered, that affirmed the Vungle vision?
24:42 - Jack's reflection on how the startup outgrew him
28:06 - Micromanaging to enabling others
30:50 - Handling a PR nightmare, and standing by his co-founder
32:40 - Jack's reflection on "making it" with the BIG exit
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Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
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This week we went deep on the growing pains of a startup, from PR nightmares to co-founder breakups, the challenge of shifting from a scarcity to growth mindset, and so much more with Jack Smith, serial entrepreneur & investor. @_jacksmith has co-founded multiple startups: Vungle, Coin, Shyp and advised many others. We talk everything from his startup outgrowing him to his lack of focus getting him to the right place & right time.
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👊🏻 5 THINGS YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Jack's curiosity from a tender age carried him through as an entrepreneur
- The value of an incubator - should you join one?
- What it takes to get to product-market fit, and then scale
- What it means to outgrow your startup, and what you can do
- The harsh reality of a startup's PR nightmare
⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
02:29 - Jack's early start in entrepreneurship
05:03 - Mediaroots evolution into Vungle
08:36 - Hacking screen record & how that led to San Francisco
10:49 - Should I join an incubator? Jack's learning from AngelPad
16:31 - The crappy engineer, launching to the next few stages
21:33 - What metrics mattered, that affirmed the Vungle vision?
24:42 - Jack's reflection on how the startup outgrew him
28:06 - Micromanaging to enabling others
30:50 - Handling a PR nightmare, and standing by his co-founder
32:40 - Jack's reflection on "making it" with the BIG exit
—
Billion Dollar Moves is THE show for the audacious; featuring the top US-Asia founders, funders and execs. From the growing pains of a unicorn journey to IPO, scaling a venture capital firm, we cover it all in the world of venture & business. Learn from the crème de la crème so YOU too, can make #billiondollarmoves — in venture, in business, in life.
PODCAST INFO:
FOLLOW SARAH:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarahchenglobal