Matt Mickiewicz's Company Portfolio
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A story about Matt Mickiewicz, a serial entrepreneur who built multiple successful companies starting as a teenager.
"In 1998, when he lived in Australia, he started a company while he was in high school called Sitepoint. Sitepoint is a publisher of books, courses, and articles for developers where you can learn HTML, CSS, Java, Ruby. They've never raised funding and have about 50 employees, probably making $5-15 million a year.
He started it as a forum and blog, and was taking $10,000 advertising checks when he was 17 in high school, so he dropped out and went all in. From the forum, he noticed people were buying and selling businesses, so he spun that into Flippa - a marketplace for buying and selling smallish websites and stores. Flippa has millions of users, recently raised $20 million, and has 100 employees.
Then he discovered people in the forum were buying and selling designs, so he started 99 Designs. On 99 Designs, you give them $1,000, tell them what you want, and about 100 designers give you mockups. You select the one you like and they get the money. They do close to $100 million in revenue and raised $45 million in funding.
He also started Hired.com when he saw people hiring developers, which raised $132 million in funding. His latest venture is Unstoppable Domains, which is a domain registrar for crypto domains that live on the blockchain."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.