Hello and welcome to the exit presented by flippa. This is a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it.

The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes, shapes and industries.

So you learn how they did it, you learn why they did it and get exposure to the world of exits, the world occupied by a small few but accessible to many.

And on this special episode I sit down with my good friend David Phillips.

We go way back he actually was one of the first investors in one of my startups in 2014.

I believe overall fantastic guy and true entrepreneur born and bred for growing businesses and scaling them.

And we sit down and we talk about his past of starting this first female focused boot camp in San Francisco.

And it was a top tier boot camp and he exited that to Capella that was a fantastic story.

And I'm definitely really eager to have everybody listen through to what he's working on now, which is called Fondo.

And it's a fantastic story overall of how he's gotten to this stage.

So without further ado, sit down and relax and listen to the interview here with David Phillips.

All right guys, I am here with my good friend David Phillips, the CEO and founder of Fondo. How's it going David?

Good Steve, great to be here with you. Thanks for having me.

For sure, for sure. So David and I go way back. He was actually the first investor that we had for my previous startup.

And he has been doing a lot of really exciting things over the past few years.

And this is like our first time to actually catch up, which is exciting that we're able to do this with such a great audience.

So David, let's get the origin story first. So everybody knows your background and what led you to initially start hack bright back in the day.

Yeah, so we started hack bright back in 2012, the beginning of like the boot camp era.

And, you know, before that, I had been a, you know, sort of non technical co founder, been, you know, doing different startups and different projects and always wanted to learn how to code.

And so, you know, my co founder,

where it was like teaching me how to code. I was learning like front end development, starting to help contribute.

We started doing some consulting because we ran out of, you know, good ideas. And we needed to make some money.

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