The SaaS Podcast
How This Founder Sold His Company for ‘Millions’ in Just 9 Months – with Grant Miller [075]
How This Founder Sold His Company for ‘Millions' in Just 9 Months
Grant Miller is the co-founder of Replicated, a service that solves the problem for companies who want to install & deploy a SaaS application inside their own firewall. Previously, he was the co-founder of Look IO, a mobile live-chat problem that was acquired by LivePerson after just 9 months.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to go about finding a great technical co-founder
- How the co-founders came up with the idea for Look IO
- How they raised money when they had no customers
- How they sold Look IO for ‘millions' within 9 months
- The ‘billion dollar' vision the team has for their new business
Success Quote
- “The harder I work the luckier I get” — Samuel Goldwyn
- “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” — Steve Jobs
Book Recommendation
“Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future” by Peter Thiel – Amazon.com | Audible
Links, Resources & People Mentioned
- Replicated
- Look.io – Acquired by Live Person
- SparkPeople
- GitHub
- Chris Downie
- Mark Kimball
- Dustin Rosen
- Sam Shank
- Robert LoCascio
- Mobile Commerce 500
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