Episode Outline
[01:26] About Formstack
[02:17] The first M&A
[04:33] Four more times
[07:14] Venture funding
[11:00] Chris’s lessons learned
[12:31] Chris’s influential people
[00:36] Jake’s background
[02:50] How Jake scaled Glassdoor from 0 to almost 1M in MRR in under 16 months
[04:00] Some of Jake’s early pitfalls and how he learned from them
[08:28] Jake’s process for evaluating whether someone is a good fit for his team
[11:02] Why Jake started his own firm
[16:17] Don’t underinvest in process or infrastructure as you grow in scale
[18:15] How Jake unwinds
[18:44] How Jake works smart and efficiently