
Getting Acquired
How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup
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Jay Aaseng
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Andrew Gazdecki
About this listen
Andrew Gazdecki knows startups. He founded Bizness Apps as a broke, 20-something entrepreneur and sold it to a private equity firm before the age of 30 - after going head-to-head with Apple over a blanket App Store policy that threatened to ruin him.
He’s been a growth consultant for several more multimillion-dollar startups. His companies have been featured in TechCrunch more than a dozen times.
Now, he shares his remarkable story in Getting Acquired: How I Built and Sold My SaaS Startup. Follow Gazdecki’s journey: starting a company at the age of 21 and hiring, then leading, over 100 employees without any real work experience of his own.
This honest, personal look behind the scenes reveals both his successes and his mistakes as he labored to build a compelling brand story and catalyze growth on a shoestring budget, almost lost everything, and finally sold the company for millions at the age of 29.
©2022 Andrew Gazdecki (P)2022 Andrew GazdeckiListeners also enjoyed...
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- Phil Williams
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Solid and impressive
The fact that Andrew sold his first company for a fantastic exit before he turned 30 is seriously impressive. Great listen and learned a lot, thanks Andrew!
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