Billy of the Week: Chris Aker

They they sold it for nine hundred million dollars in cash. They don't really mention much about the company other than it was doing over a hundred million in revenue. What they what what they don't mention is the guy who started it He bootstrapped it, raised no outside money, and owned one hundred percent of it. All the way through the sale? all the way through the sale, owned 100% of it.

Million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion Dollar. So let me tell you this quick story. This was not a big headline. I bet you didn't even see it.

So my friend, uh, I was in college at the time. He's a little bit he's older than me, so he was not in college. He was probably in his thirties when I was twenty one. He started this company called Linode. Did you see yesterday a company called Linode was acquired for nine hundred million dollars in cash? Yeah, who bought it? It was um Ac is it called Akamai? Akamai, yeah. Akamai.

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