The story behind David Baggett’s $700,000,000 sale to Google

David Baggett, ITA Software, B2B, Mobile Apps, SaaS (software as a service), Sell Your Business, System

David Baggett is the co-founder of ITA Software, a company that Google bought for reported $700 million. ITA makes software that’s the search engine behind sites like Kayak. It actually figures out prices, time and other data like flights.

Today he’s launching Inky, a mobile app that makes clearing your inbox easier. It will categorize your email for you. Help you unsubscribe from junk and quickly respond to what’s important.

I invited him here to talk about his past companies. I want to ask him about Inky, including a couple of challenging questions that some of you may have. I think this is the right app for me, but I have one big question that we’ll talk about later on.

David Baggett

ITA Software

David Baggett is the co-founder of ITA Software, whose software created an up-to-date database of flight information from airlines.

 

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Today’s guest is David Baggett. He co-founded ITA software, a company that Google bought for a reported $700 million. ITA makes software that’s the search engine behind sites like Kayak. It actually figures out prices, time and other data like flights.

Today, after selling, he launched, and is running, Inky, a mobile app that makes clearing your inbox easier. It will categorize your email for you., it will help you unsubscribe from junk. And it will let you quickly...

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