Tucker Max thought his business was worth $64 million.
Then it nearly died.
This is the story of how Scribe, the ghostwriting and publishing company rose, crashed, and rose again.
Tucker Max first became famous for his best-selling “fratire” books. He shifted to entrepreneurship when he launched Scribe, a book ghostwriting and publishing company. Today he spends time on his ranch where he grows his own food, and runs Tell Your Story Memoir Academy, which helps authors document their truth.
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#2270 Zillow laid him off, so he started his own company
Zillow laid him off. So John Doherty launched Credo a digital agency matchmaking firm. Exactly 7 years later — to the day — he sold the company.
This is the story of how he built and sold Credo, and how he’s building his latest company, EditorNinja, which offers outsourced text editing.
John Doherty is the founder of Credo, which matches digital agencies with clients. After an exit in 2022, he built his professional editing/SEO service EditorNinja. When he’s not doing that, he disconnects from everything tech and goes skiing.
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#2269 How the “My First Million” Guy Made his Money
Shaan Puri was exceptional at doing the Silicon Valley thing.
Still, he says his newsletter was the fastest way he’s ever made money.
Within a year of its creation, The Milk Road grew to 250k readers and a reported 8-figure exit.
Shaan Puri is perhaps most famous for co-hosting the My First Million podcast with Sam Parr, which has garnered over 200 million YouTube views since it started in 2019.
Some of his additional projects include Bebo (sold to Twitch in 2019), Blab (live-streaming service with ~4 million users), a venture fund, and his newsletter The Milk Road (250K readers in <1 year).
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#2268 How is beehiiv making $15 mil per year?
They feel like the millionth company to offer email newsletter publishing. How are they growing so fast despite the competition?
Tyler Denk is a big reason. A former Morning Brew employee, he took their growth techniques and turned them into a software company: beehiiv.
Tyler Denk was the second-ever employee at Morning Brew. After growing it to the reported biggest exit of any newsletter business, he started building beehiiv. Now, they’re doing $15 million in ARR as a growing underdog.
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#2267 This listener got a Mixergy guest to invest in her startup
Vlada Lotkina noticed something wrong at her daughter’s school.
So she built the solution and sold it for 8-figures.
It’s called ClassTag, and it’s a platform where teachers, parents and school administrators can communicate and send out announcements. No flyers, no ridiculously long emails…
My favorite part is that she’s a Mixergy listener herself. She literally called a previous guest of mine and got him to invest before her business took off.
Vlada Lotkina is the co-founder and CEO of ClassTag, an edtech platform that simplifies communication between teachers and parents. She grew up in Ukraine and watched as her father pursued entrepreneurship during the fall of the soviet union. As a mother in the U.S., her own frustrations with poor school-parent communication inspired her. She eventually exited ClassTag for 8-figures.
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