How a founder must change as the company grows from startup to IPO

Bob Tinker, MobileIron, B2B, Web 1.0

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was working on a startup during the dot com boom and he was shaped by the foolishness of that era.

Bob Tinker was the founding CEO of MobileIron which helps companies enable their employees to choose the best devices and best apps they want to do their work and he took the company public.

 

Bob Tinker

MobileIron

Bob Tinker was the co-founder of MobileIron which helps companies enable their employees to choose the best devices and best apps they want to do their work.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses and I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs who are building their businesses now as they’re listening to my interviews. And joining me today is an entrepreneur who was in a startup in the dot-com days and looked around and said, “What is this?” and was shaped by the foolishness of that era, and then he got into another company where he saw some things work out really well. And then he now most recently, well, brought about this company called MobileIron and help take it public. And he’s seen everything from the beginning days of a company to the point where things are now growing big to actually an IPO.

I invited him here to talk about the journey of how he got from there where he was back in the dot-com days where things weren’t really working out to how he took a company...

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