1045 Tech CEO: I Sold for $20m! Guess what he's doing now...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Formerly CEO & Co-founder of Geekatoo, scaled from idea to 7000 providers nationwide, sold for $20M in 2016. Now CEO & Co-Founder of Bestfoodtrucks.com. Also a musician who plays live EDM, @cinematronica on Instagram.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,
0:38.6	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.6	Hello, everyone, my guest today is Kevin Davis of Best Food Trucks.com.
0:53.9	He is formerly the CEO and co-founder of Gikatu, which we had him on, obviously,
0:57.7	when he was building that, which he scaled from IDA to 7,000 providers nationwide,
1:01.1	and then sold for $20 million back last year or two years ago in 2016.
1:04.7	He's now the CEO and co-founder of Best Food Trucks and also a musician who plays live EDM at Cinematronica on Instagram.
1:12.6	Kevin, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:14.2	Yes.
1:14.7	All right, brother.
1:15.5	So you go from, you go from tech service support to freaking food trucks.
1:20.0	How does that work?
1:21.4	It's actually, it feels so good.
1:23.1	Having, you know, spending seven years of my life in like consumer IT and fixing computers
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