Learning Out Loud

#40 - Josh Anton - Building XMode to an 8 Figure Exit

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Josh Anton is the founder of X-mode, a location services company that started out as Drunk Mode, a mobile app allowing college students to track their friends’ whereabouts during a night out. Josh parlayed that location technology into an industry leader in X-mode, and recently sold to Digital Envoy for an undisclosed amount. Josh now serves as Chief Strategy Officer with Digital Envoy. He is a 2014 UVA McIntire graduate.


We spoke with Josh about:

  • Minimizing risk
  • Lessons on intellectual property
  • Listening to your customers
  • Learning vs. earning
  • Learning by doing
  • Knowing yourself
  • Setting quantitative goals
  • Mergers/acquisitions
  • Aligning incentives
  • Finding co-founders
  • Selling million dollar contracts
    • ...more
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