Exit Stories

Glen Caplan, Partner at Robinson, Bradshaw, & Hinson, joins host Kevin Mosley. They talk about Glen's experiences and stories at all stages of a company's lifecycle, from formation to capital raising to ultimately exiting.

Host Kevin Mosley chats with Tom Simon, co-founder and CMO of Source3. Source3 was a company focused on digital 3D rights before pivoting to digital music rights – an industry near and dear to the founders' hearts – at the right time. They ultimately partnered with and exited to Facebook in 2017.

For the Season Finale of Exit Stories, Jesse Davis, longtime Triangle exec and former VP at Progress Software, joins host Kevin Mosley to tell Tales From the Other Side, giving valuable insight into how strategic corporate acquirers approach acquiring other companies, helping future Exit Stories subjects gain a leg up for the future.

Windsor Circle co-founder and CEO, Matt Williamson, joins host Kevin Mosley to share his incredible story from seeing a market gap at Bronto and turning that into a massively successful company with a fantastic culture that stood the test of multiple funding rounds and an eventual strategic exit to WhatCounts in 2018. 

Steve Carnevale, former CFO of Global Software, joins Kevin Mosley as they talk about how transactions look from the CFO's perspective, including Geomagic's sale to 3D Systems and how Global Software went through two PE buyouts in the span of two years, ultimately merging into local acquisition giant, insight software.

Digitalsmiths' CEO and co-founder, Ben Weinberger, joins Kevin Mosley as they discuss Ben's journey from a dorm room in Illinois to following his now-wife to SC, then finally to NC as Digitalsmiths helped pioneer the way we watch TV today, ultimately taking VC money to take advantage of the market before exiting to a strategic corporate partner in TiVo in 2014.

Matt Schmidt, cofounder and former President of DZone, joins Kevin Mosley to talk about starting a company while still at NC State, bootstrapping over 15 years, and why he chose an investment banker to facilitate an eventual exit to a Growth Equity firm.

Steve Klein, cofounder and former COO of Statuspage.io, joins Kevin Mosley to talk about his journey as he and his brother went through Y Combinator’s accelerator, took very little money while growing quickly, and later were acquired by one of their customers, a newly-public Atlassian.

Doug Kaufman, former CEO of TransLoc, joins Kevin Mosley to share his entrepreneurial journey from getting his doctorate in social psychology to starting multiple companies before joining TransLoc, transforming them to a VC-backed growth company who sold only 18 months after raising to a strategic fit in Ford Mobility.

Nathan Shackles, solo founder and former CEO of Applicant Stack, joins Kevin Mosley to talk about how he built a company with solid fundamentals, ignored any labels associated with bootstrapping, negotiated strongly when he didn’t have to sell, and ultimately found a great strategic fit with Swipe Clock.