Alexa Von Tobel started thinking about money after her dad died when she was young. By the time she got her first job out of college, she was horrified to learn that there weren’t any financial resources online. So she built LearnVest – one of the first companies to help young people manage their money online – and sold it to Northwestern Mutual for $375 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today on the show, we're back with the exit where I interview founders after they've accomplished the dream.
What's it like to sell the thing you've poured your life into for hundreds of millions of dollars?
Here we go.
Today on the show, how Alexa Von Tobel started scaled and.
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I don't usually like to toot my own horn, but I will.
Season eleven of the pitch this season was straight fire.
If you missed even one episode, you likely missed an incredible pitch.
It started with nectar raising 1.4 million on episode 127.
And then pitch after Pitch was just deal after deal.
Founders raised 2.2 million in the pitch room and over 2.4 million from listeners after the show.
And that's just what we could track.
Some of y'all be investing directly without letting me make the intro.
Tsk, tsk.
Actually, if you're one of those people who invested in a startup featured on this show, I want to talk with you.
We're building something new just for accredited investors, family offices and VC's.
I want to give you private access to invest directly into our startups months before they appear on the show.
If this sounds interesting to you, lets jump on a call.