July 19, 2023

Bootstrapping to a $93M exit with the diagonal aSaaSin, Jesse Lipson, CEO and Co founder of Levitate

"I was the only employee in the company until we had a thousand customers".

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Jesse Lipson, CEO and Co founder of Levitate and ShareFile, joins the show to talk about

  • Bootstrapping his SaaS company, ShareFile, to a $93M acquisition by Citrix.
  • What the acquisition process looked like during the sale of ShareFile to Citrix.
  • The keys to building successful companies with and without venture capital.
  • Becoming the diagonal aSaaSin and dominating in categories that cut across verticals.
  • Building really big businesses in the Raleigh tech scene.

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