MFM x Trends - How Johnny Boufarhat Took Hopin from 0 to $1b+ in Less Than A Year
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This next episode is kind of mind blowing because this guy his name's Johnny. started this business that went from zero to over a billion dollar valuation and something like ten or twelve months. I think that's the I think that's the fastest it's ever been done. Um so let's get to the story or the the the background. Uh it's basically Uh this episode is an interview with Johnny Bafarat. He's the CEO, he's the founder of this company called Hoppen. And Hoppen started before the pandemic, and what they were trying to do was bring
In person events. Online. to dumb it down, a virtual event platform. But Covid hit. So you can imagine that it just like
Took off. Um, so this company, it it's it's just been astounding to watch these guys because uh one of the some of their uh uh founding team wrote for trends and and we were friends with them at our company. So we got a little bit of an inside track or an inside view uh how this business works. But Johnny is a CEO, he's a founder, he's in his mid-20s, and he's got a Very, very, very amazing story, a very interesting outlook. He he was sick at a young age and that kind of changed how he started uh looking at the world. And he looked me in the eye when we were doing this interview and he goes, My goal is to make this a hundred billion dollar company. That's all I want to do. And it's really weird and strange and odd to re be around people who are so blunt with their ambitions ambitions. And frankly, it's quite inspiring. And I don't think that that's the right move for everyone. But I respect people who know what they want and they get after it. So
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