GWRI: Turning $820 Into A $450M Company In Eight Years – with Dan Pena
on Oct 29, 2012 - 9:00 AM PST
Dan Pena started with only $820, transforming it into a $445 million business in just eight years…

Dan Pena started with only $820, transforming it into a $445 million business in just eight years…

How does a guy who never published a book before build a $3 million a year publishing company?

How does a math tutor turn his part-time work into a multi-million dollar business?

How does a woman whose entrepreneurship professor told her she wasn’t good enough to lead end up launching and leading a multimillion dollar company?

How does a guy who starts off building web sites for a few hundred dollars end up building…

How does the worst employee in the world end up building one of the most successful WordPress companies in the world?

I usually focus each interview on just one founder’s story as he built a single company.
But with today’s guest, I think that’s too difficult…

How does a founder who used her birthday money to launch a company end up selling it for over a million dollars?

How profitable can the ebook business be for an entrepreneur?
Kevin Gao is the founder of HyperInk, a Y-Combinator backed digital publisher that published books by Brad Feld, Jeff Atwood, Alexis Ohanian and Mixergy. But that’s not why I invited him here…

Imagine the economy goes bust and you have to sell your company at a liquidation price. How do you come back after that?
Well, that’s what happened to…

How does a teenager turn a $50 ad into a business that generated over $1 million in annual revenue?

If you’re not a developer, but you want a developer to help you think through your software idea, how do you do it?