How to build a hosting company that stands apart from the competition

Chris Wells, Nexcess, B2B, Hiring, Marketing, SaaS (software as a service), Scaling

Joining me is a guy who doesn’t really think of themselves as an entrepreneur. He’s more of a techie, but nevertheless, while working a full-time job, he decided I’m going to start this thing on the side.

What he started on the side has grown really big. From what I can see, they are doing well over $20 million a year, profitable, and growing.

Chris Wells is the founder of Nexcess, a cloud hosting platform.

There are tons of hosting companies out there so I want to find out how he’s stood out from all the competition.

Chris Wells

Nexcess

Chris Wells is the founder of Nexcess, a cloud hosting platform.

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 joining me is a guy who doesn’t really think of themselves as an entrepreneur. He’s more of a techie, but nevertheless, while working a full-time job, he decided I’m going to start this thing on the side and this thing that he started on the side has grown really big. And I actually, from what I can see, we’re looking at well over $20 million a year, profitable, growing, 125 people working for him. More than that, right, Chris?

Chris: Well, we’re going 130-ish right now.

Andrew: 30-ish. The voice you just heard is Chris Wells. He is the founder of Nexcess. They provide a platform for application hosting. That means if you want to host your WordPress site, you can go to them. You want to host Magento, you want to host other applications, go to them. They’ll take...

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