How does one man take a $54 investment and turn it into a company that he

later sold for $45 million of cash and stock? How does one man build an online

business worth over $10 million with just two coders? On today's show we

interview my friend, Peish Patel, the founder of Digital Tutors, the company

later acquired by Pluralsight. During today's interview, Peish discusses how we

started Digital Tutors, how he got his first customers, how he recruited top

talent, and his book lead your tribe, love your work, and entrepreneur's guide to

creating a culture that matters. What BAM stands for and much much more. Some shows

don't need a celebrity to write her to introduce the show, but this show dies. Two

men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar

businesses, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Show.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. The Thrive Nation on today's show we have an incredible

guest. My friend, Mr. Peish Patel, welcome on to the show. How are you, sir?

I'm awesome, thank you. Peish, the listeners out there that are not super familiar with

your background. Could you walk us through kind of your history building digital tutors,

kind of where it all began, and then where it ended for you? Yeah, I was a six grade science

teacher, turned college professor, then entrepreneur, and started with a $54 personal investment

and grew it to $10 million with no investors, no debt, and then sold it for over $45 million

in cash. That's the one sentence. Step one, you've got to gather the $54, step two, sell

for $54 million. Okay, now talk to me about this, though. How did you get your first

customers at digital tutors, and what product did digital tutors sell to the world?

Right, so we were pretty much online training academy, much like your business school online.

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