Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It’s the home of the ambitious upstart and the place where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I do these interviews for an audience of entrepreneurs who are learning from my guests, who are building their companies, and very often as you’ve noticed lately, coming back here and talking about how they built their businesses too.
Well, Matt Gillin, the guy who you’re about to meet here today, started a business and very quickly had two big competitors, people who you already know. Elon Musk started looking at his site, and Peter Thiel, from a different direction, and both of those guys came gunning for him. The way he dealt with that onslaught and the way he created his company allowed him to build something that he eventually sold for $220 million to Citigroup in 2008.
The company he founded was Ecount, which provided prepaid...