How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
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We had a hundred million annual Revenue run rate at eleven months. Gruins did twenty two months, right? And they were acquired for one point two billion. A G one took them ten years to hit a hundred million. We hit two hundred million. run right in eighteen months. I feel like I can rule the world and no way But I want to
Alright, Danny, welcome to the show, man. Why don't we start off, why don't you give a little little intro to yourself, so Who are you? What do you do? Sean, thanks for having me. Quick background myself, always been an entrepreneur. Started working at a very young age. At 15, I was a telemarketer. So that's how I think I got started working. Age twenty-four, had my first business, was a restaurant, did that for three, four years. Then ventured in hotel furniture business, import, export from China into the US, eventually working on some big projects like the MGM City Center in Vegas.
Did that also for the three, four years then in two thousand and ten. I took a leap of faith and moved to Hong Kong. um to launch an e commerce company that was doing group buying. And then when Cropon went international, they w acquire fifty one percent of my company. We became the largest e commerce company in the region. I left in two thousand fourteen. We're doing about two hundred million annual revenues.
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