Startup Stories - Mixergy

By Andrew Warner

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February 21, 2025 #2272 Aux: >$10mil advising private equity
When Kasey Grelle heard that private equity companies paid marketing agencies to evaluate companies they wanted to buy, she spotted a business opportunity. That realization became Aux Insights, the firm that’s become “the office of the CMO” for private equity companies. Listen to how they got clients & built their business.
Kasey is a former reporter who founded Aux Insights, a global advisory firm that acts as the office of the CMO for private equity firms, specializing in digital growth strategy and marketing diligence. When she’s not scaling businesses, she’s up before dawn at 4 AM, savoring the quiet magic of early morning work before the chaos of her three-kid household kicks in.
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November 29, 2024 #2271 Tucker Max left & his business crashed
Tucker Max thought his business was worth $64 million.
Then it nearly died.
This is the story of how Scribe, the ghostwriting and publishing company rose, crashed, and rose again.
Tucker Max first became famous for his best-selling “fratire” books. He shifted to entrepreneurship when he launched Scribe, a book ghostwriting and publishing company. Today he spends time on his ranch where he grows his own food, and runs Tell Your Story Memoir Academy, which helps authors document their truth.
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beehiiv – The best email newsletter publishing platform because they’ll grow your audience faster than any other service.
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November 22, 2024 #2270 Zillow laid him off, so he started his own company
Zillow laid him off. So John Doherty launched Credo a digital agency matchmaking firm. Exactly 7 years later — to the day — he sold the company.
This is the story of how he built and sold Credo, and how he’s building his latest company, EditorNinja, which offers outsourced text editing.
John Doherty is the founder of Credo, which matches digital agencies with clients. After an exit in 2022, he built his professional editing/SEO service EditorNinja. When he’s not doing that, he disconnects from everything tech and goes skiing.
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Gusto – The HR platform so well designed that your team will thank you for using them.
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November 15, 2024 #2269 How the “My First Million” Guy Made his Money
Shaan Puri was exceptional at doing the Silicon Valley thing.
Still, he says his newsletter was the fastest way he’s ever made money.
Within a year of its creation, The Milk Road grew to 250k readers and a reported 8-figure exit.
Shaan Puri is perhaps most famous for co-hosting the My First Million podcast with Sam Parr, which has garnered over 200 million YouTube views since it started in 2019.
Some of his additional projects include Bebo (sold to Twitch in 2019), Blab (live-streaming service with ~4 million users), a venture fund, and his newsletter The Milk Road (250K readers in <1 year).
Sponsored by
beehiiv – the email platform that Shaan used to build The Milk Road. It’s fantastic. Try it free using our link.
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November 01, 2024 #2268 How is beehiiv making $15 mil per year?
They feel like the millionth company to offer email newsletter publishing. How are they growing so fast despite the competition?
Tyler Denk is a big reason. A former Morning Brew employee, he took their growth techniques and turned them into a software company: beehiiv.
Tyler Denk was the second-ever employee at Morning Brew. After growing it to the reported biggest exit of any newsletter business, he started building beehiiv. Now, they’re doing $15 million in ARR as a growing underdog.
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September 20, 2024 #2267 This listener got a Mixergy guest to invest in her startup
Vlada Lotkina noticed something wrong at her daughter’s school.
So she built the solution and sold it for 8-figures.
It’s called ClassTag, and it’s a platform where teachers, parents and school administrators can communicate and send out announcements. No flyers, no ridiculously long emails…
My favorite part is that she’s a Mixergy listener herself. She literally called a previous guest of mine and got him to invest before her business took off.
Vlada Lotkina is the co-founder and CEO of ClassTag, an edtech platform that simplifies communication between teachers and parents. She grew up in Ukraine and watched as her father pursued entrepreneurship during the fall of the soviet union. As a mother in the U.S., her own frustrations with poor school-parent communication inspired her. She eventually exited ClassTag for 8-figures.
Sponsored by
Gusto – The easy payroll and benefits software the Mixergy interviewees love.
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April 12, 2024 #2265 He Bought a Ghost Town
Brent Underwood had a business idea: buy an abandoned town and turn it into a tourist destination.
It didn’t work. Mostly because he tried running it remotely.
Then he moved in. He started looking around, diving into old mines, and finding old treasures.
He shot video of what he saw and of his renovations. That got hugely popular on social media, helped him raise money and allowed him to fund his project. It’s all in his book, Ghost Town Living, and in this interview.

Brent Underwood is the founder of Cerro Gordo, an ambitious project aimed at reviving a historic ghost town into a tourist attraction and real estate opportunity. Outside of his entrepreneurial endeavors, Brent has a passion for history, hospitality, and the unique storytelling of the American West, all of which play a central role in his current venture.
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Gusto – The easy payroll and benefits software the Mixergy interviewees love.
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March 01, 2024 #2264 From Chaos to $200M. Ryan Deiss’s Method
Ryan Deiss’s business was too chaotic to grow beyond a few team members. So he tried creating SOP’s, you know those how-to docs that every business is told to create, but few people end up using.
He figured there had to be a better way. Through experiments with he came up with “an operating system for companies.” He says this approach helped him grow to over a dozen different companies which last year did revenue in excess of $200 million.
He explained his process in his book Get Scalable: How to Create an Operating System for Your Business, and in this interview.
Ryan Deiss is the founder of DigitalMarketer and The Scalable Company. His most recent book is “Get Scalable: How to Create an Operating System for Your Business.” Despite the fact that he built a massive online community and offline event business, he’s so shy that we rarely see him at events here in Austin.
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Gusto – The easy payroll and benefits software the Mixergy interviewees love.
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February 23, 2024 #2263 Art.com’s A Rocky Road to Success
He built Art.com through the early days of the internet, despite the dotcom bust, and through heavy competition….After all that work, the company sold to a much bigger company….And that’s when the lawsuit came.
You’ll hear how Joshua Chodniewicz built that business and how his latest business, Fundify, is changing startup investing by making it super-simple.
Joshua Chodniewicz is the founder of Art.com, a pioneering online platform for art and wall décor. He is deeply passionate about entrepreneurship and enjoys discussing business strategies and ideas with his sons. Currently, Joshua is leading Fundify, focusing on democratizing startup investments.
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February 16, 2024 #2262 What happened to Allbirds?
Allbirds were the sustainable shoes known to be worn by Marissa Mayer, Jennifer Garner, and every dude I knew when I lived in San Francisco. How did the company get so big and where is it now? I invited the founders Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger to talk about it.
Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger are the founders of Allbirds. Previously, Tim was a footballer and business student. And Joey specialized in biotech and renewable materials.
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