How Gary Levitt Sold His Company to GoDaddy

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What’s it like to start a company for $50… and sell it for $42 million? For many people, this might sound like a dream. But for Gary Levitt, it was reality. Learn how Gary had his email marketing company Mad Mimi acquired by GoDaddy, his recommendations on email marketing best practices, and tons more.

Full show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/41

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm sitting there in Starbucks because I built the whole thing from a coffee shop.
0:03.7	Sith Gordon signs up and I say to myself I'm going to ask Seth Gordon if he's
0:08.7	list is authentic because I don't want people to be spamming using the service so
0:12.1	I read to Seth Gordon and say, you know,
0:14.0	could you tell me a little bit about your list? And he writes back, I'm Seth Gordon.
0:18.2	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:25.0	What up party people, it's your boy,
0:30.0	Matsuball, aka Roba Can't Lose, aka Noo Kagan.
0:32.6	In today's episode I talked to Gary Levitt, the founder of Mad Mimi.
0:36.6	They were acquired by Go Daddy.
0:38.6	This is part of my Israel series when I was out in Israel.
0:42.2	Gary is an Orthodox Jew. Yes, the guys that wear the cool
0:45.1	sideburns called payotes among other things. The conversation starts out with some
0:49.5	really interesting experiences about him being an Orthodox Jew and then we dive into how Gary grew Mad Mimi.
0:55.8	Three main things you're going to learn is, how did Gary go from the Berkeley Music School
1:00.0	to being completely broke living on the floor in a tiny apartment in New York to creating a hugely successful company.
1:06.4	Mad Meamy.
1:07.4	Two, what's it like to be acquired?
1:09.2	How does it happen?
1:09.9	I'm still waiting for some phone calls.
1:11.2	Like what's the behind the scenes of getting acquired and number three what are email best practices I know you're
1:16.0	curious so if you want ever want to send emails and get in the inbox increase your
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Noah Kagan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Noah Kagan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.