And I tell that to founders all the time.

It's like, hey, raising 20 million bucks and like going for the moon and taking 14 years to get to $130 million exit is cool.

But that's a lot.

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of these podcast interviews. Check it out right now at getlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Jeff

Solomon. It's a real treat because he's a six-time founder with three exits. Velosophy in 2017 for

$128 million is obviously probably the best known one. He's also

been teaching and coaching entrepreneurship for 10 plus years and invested over 150 startups,

experienced in SaaS, content marketing, and many other areas like venture funding, B2B

Software, UXUI as well. All right, Jeff, you ready to take us to the top? Let's do it.

All right. So 2017 was out of exit. Did you jump right into markup here after Velocify or no?

No, no. I did. Well, I played around for a little bit. You know, had a nice exit. So I took a little

break. Was doing some angel investing still working with Amplify, the accelerator that I,

that I founded, you know, previously in 2012 doing some deals there.

And then mostly was consulting for a number of years, you know, just going into other

companies that needed help with product and growth and marketing and stuff like that.

And then maybe two or three years ago started toying around with this Markup Hero product.

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