{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leo Pareja Unfiltered","title":"$500M, 5 Exits, 0 Failures: Jody Glidden's Playbook No One Talks About","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1702,"description":"➡️ Access ALL FREE business resources, episode blueprints, and exclusive content from past episodes: https://stan.store/leoparejaJody Glidden dropped out of computer science after one year, joined a startup as employee #5, and sold his first company for $1 million at 19—a deal he now calls one of his biggest mistakes because he \"didn't know anything about multiples.\" The five-time exited founder reveals how growing up in a fishing village programmed him to clash with every acquirer's vision, why getting acquired by the same company twice still couldn't teach him to execute someone else's decisions, and the brutal math showing why going deep in a vertical beats going broad every time. This is the raw playbook from someone who built IntroHive to a $500 million valuation serving 93 countries, now runs 25 people doing what used to take 150, and has generated 100-200x angel returns—exposing why commodity SaaS is dead and what separates founders who exit from founders who get disrupted.➡️ Show LinksLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jodyglidden➡️ Timestamps00:00 He Didn't Just See Data—He Saw Relationships01:41 Born at the Right Time: The Malcolm Gladwell Outlier Reality03:22 \"It's Hard for Me to Execute Other People's Decisions\"04:01 One Year of Computer Science Then Quit—Employee #504:43 $1 Million Exit at 19: \"Never Should Have Sold\"06:45 Pitching the LMS They Rejected—Then Becoming Their Competitor07:35 Same Buyer, Second Acquisition: $10 Million (Still Too Early)10:02 The BlackBerry Relay Idea: One Year Building, Zero Market12:40 Chalk Media: Ephemeral Content Before Snapchat Existed14:29 Raising in September 2008 (The Worst Timing Possible)15:35 Reporting to Jim Balsilie: Learning From a Childhood Hero16:26 Big Four Discovery: 500K Employees Who Don't Know Who Knows Who17:52 PWC: 100 Seats to 93 Countries to $500M Valuation18:34 The Private Equity Firm That Didn't Go Well21:32 Going Deep in a Vertical: The Strategy That's Never Failed22:46 25 People Now vs. 150...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/s-8ogzICZpL893roq1emG4hhsHZ8o86J8mfvu4kGQbQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xY2M1/NGVmMDMzMDZhOGMw/OTE0NjBlZmVmY2E2/NzQ4Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}