Sramana Mitra: Let’s pick a couple of how’s in what you have done where we can draw some lessons from the trenches. You pick from your journey where you can throw the maximum light on how you’ve done what you’ve done. Chris Miglino: I’ve been relentless. That’s what helped me be successful. One thing that’s
Sramana Mitra: If you look back on that journey, what strategic levers did you push that were particularly good? Chris Miglino: You can walk into any ad agency in 2008 and 2009 and just say you have something on Facebook. They would throw money at you to test it out. Sramana Mitra: To understand what
Sramana Mitra: What did you do after you sold? Chris Miglino: I went back to trading again. I updated the algorithms and started trading again. I took one of the top sales people at the company that we had sold and we started Social Reality together. We started Social Reality under the premise of selling
Sramana Mitra: Did you sell for stock or cash? Chris Miglino: We sold for stock. We were fresh out of school. This was the first big business transaction that we had done. We had learned a lot about the stock market. We owned a lot of stock in this company that was having a very
If you think venture capital is the only path to funding companies, you are, obviously wrong. Chris talks about a whole other world of OTC. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Chris Miglino: I was