Pt 2 - From Home-Based Startup to $147,000,000 | The Matt Watson Story

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Learn more about the Oklahoma native Matt Watson who started and subsequently sold VinSolutions for $147,000,000 to AutoTrader. During this portion of the interview, Clay asks Matt what how he decides what to say no to, how he organizes his day and his vision for the future of his next venture, Stackify.

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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'll 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	All right, Thrive Nation,
0:30.0	welcome back to the Thrive Time Show on your radio and podcast download.
0:35.0	Now on today's show, this is a part two of our exclusive interview with Matt Watson.
0:41.0	You might be saying to yourself, who?
0:43.0	Steve Currington, who is Matt Watson?
0:45.0	Who?
0:46.0	Well, Matt Watson is a man who started a home-based business
0:50.0	at the age of 22.
0:52.0	He then hired his father.
0:54.8	Seven years later, he made it profitable.
0:57.3	He just sold the company for a hundred and forty seven million dollars to auto trader. $14,700,700,000.00.
1:05.0	147.
1:09.0	147 million.
1:10.0	$147 million.
1:12.0	And so he's on today's show and if you missed yesterday's show you want to go to Thrivetime
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