Sean Byrnes sold Flurry to Yahoo and launched Outlier AI

Sean Byrnes, Outlier

What do you do when you’ve sold the company that you’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears into? Launch another company, of course.

Sean Byrnes is the CEO & Co-Founder of Outlier.ai which delivers automated business analysis for some of the largest consumer businesses in the world.

Sean built Flurry into a successful analytics platform for mobile apps and sold it to Yahoo in 2014. He then launched Outlier.ai.

Sean Byrnes

Outlier

Sean Byrnes is the CEO & Co-Founder of Outlier which delivers automated business analysis for some of the largest consumer businesses in the world.

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. I remember when my wife was working at Yahoo, she was doing their social impact. She was the head of Yahoo for Good. The big talk there was about how Yahoo was changing partially through these acquisitions of . . . Yeah, Flurry was a big one. And at the time, it felt to me like Flurry was this company that just hit it, that was so impressive that they sold for a big number but also they were going to change Yahoo through that acquisition.

And it wasn’t until I got prepped for this interview that I realized how many setbacks this analytics company had. I still feels unfathomable to me. Sean Byrnes is the founder. He’s here to talk about a little bit about that and a little bit also about this new company that he created after . . . I wonder if he burned out or what happened when he took some time...

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