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Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Social media hasn’t quite taken off yet. 2004 was the beginning of Facebook. Brian Loew: That’s right. You didn’t have vertical social networks. You had message boards. There were some message boards, as you remember, that were good. We thought that there was some opportunity here. I got some friends with web background
Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of revenue level did you get to with that company? Brian Loew: Somewhere between $15 million to $20 million. We sold that in 2000. One of my Board members was the former President of the Washington Post. I was exhausted after that. He said, “Why don’t you go to the Washington
Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 1)
Brian and his team went five years with little or no revenue. Revenues started flowing in year six, and now, in the 10th year, the company is doing over $5 million in revenue, growing 80% y-o-y. Read Inspire’s journey of resilience and persistence. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where
