How VinSolutions was built and sold to Autotrader for $150,000,000

Matt Watson, Stackify, Customer Acquisition, SaaS (software as a service), Sell Your Business
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Matt Watson is the founder of Stackify which helps developers improve their applications.

The company he started before that was called VinSolutions. They offered a collection of software for auto resellers.

He sold it to Autotrader and there were a bunch of different rumors about what the price of the sale was. Biz Journal said he sold that company for nearly $135 million. It ended up being $150 million.

I want to find out how he did it.

Matt Watson

Stackify

Matt Watson is the founder of Stackify which helps developers improve their applications.

Andrew: Hi everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of mixergy.com where I interview proven entrepreneurs for an audience of real entrepreneurs and that’s why I like to get deep into the details of how they built their businesses. I, unlike other podcasters who do interviews, I don’t just roll into the interview blindly but, you know, we have producers, pre-interviewers, and a team of researchers to help prep me. And I think that my team was being too nice to my guests so nice that we didn’t even need them to be this nice.

Here’s what I mean. Matt, you kind of caught on to this. So Matt Watson is currently the founder of a company called Stackify which helps developers improve their applications. It provides monitoring and troubleshooting, actually, it enables . . . So much for the team of producers and editors and like and they wrote it for me and I was like misreading it. You provide a combination of tools to help developers...

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