From Home-Based Startup to $147,000,000 | The Matt Watson Story (Part 1)

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Learn how the 22-year-old Oklahoma native Matt Watson started VinSolutions out his home and later sold it for $147,000,000 to AutoTrader. In this far-ranging interview, Clay and Matt discuss how to start a business out of your home, working with family, firing people, why Stackify’s office is built out of Lego parts, why college doesn’t help most coders and more.

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0:00.0	Two men, 13 multimillion dollar businesses, eight kids, one business coach radio show.
0:08.6	It's the Thrive Time Business Coach Radio show.
0:11.3	Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show.
0:13.7	That's it.
0:14.7	Arms away. We started from the bottom and we're Show you how to get here.
0:23.0	Started from the bottom now we're here.
0:25.0	We started from the bottom now we're here.
0:28.0	Oh yes, Thrive Nation.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Thrive Time show on your
0:33.8	radio and podcast download. Now Chuck on today's show we have a cornucopia of
0:41.0	great things we need to get in it We have a multitude, a plethora of peneatas.
0:46.2	We have a plethora of topics to get into today.
0:49.7	The first topic, uh, Chuck, this is going to be an exciting topic for somebody out there.
0:54.5	It's how to make 147 million dollars.
0:57.5	Ooh!
0:58.5	So that's the first, that would be the first topic we're going to make sure we teach today is
1:01.7	You're going to listen in to that one.
1:03.4	How to make $147 million.
1:06.7	And Clay, why is this specific number?
1:10.8	Well, what happened was is there's a thriver out there, a great guy, great listener, a great
1:14.9	member of the Thrive Nation by the name of Matt Watson.
1:18.6	And Matt reached out to us and said, hey, I'd like to be on the podcast to share some things that I learned while
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