Understand.com: Selling Everything To Get Off The Ground – with Darik Volpa

Darik Volpa, Understand, Customer Acquisition, Educational Company, Hiring, Scaling

How does a guy who cashes in almost everything he owns to start a multi-million dollar company?

Darik Volpa is the founder and CEO of Understand.com, a global medical education company that uses 3D animation to explain complex diseases, conditions and procedures.

He sold his house and liquidated his stock options to get this company off the ground.

I invited him to tell us what happened.

Darik Volpa

Understand

Darik Volpa is the founder and CEO of Understand.com, a global medical education company that uses 3D animation to explain complex diseases, conditions and procedures.

 

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