Ep107 – Blake Hutchison (CEO – Flippa) on building market dynamics

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep107 – Blake Hutchison (CEO – Flippa) on building market dynamics July 18, 2019 rohitbhargava Podcast My guest for Episode 107 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is the CEO of Flippa, Blake Hutchison. Blake started his career by moving to San Francisco in 2005 as part of the team at Lonely Planet, before joining NileGuide, a trip planning startup that would go on to raise $13M just weeks before the GFC hit! Blake then moved back to Australia to launch his own startup which he eventually sold through Flippa, before going on to take senior roles at Xero and Luxury Escapes. Blake joined Flippa as their CEO 9 months ago to help accelerate the businesses expansion across all of their international markets.  With such a varied and interesting background, we covered a range of topics in this interview including: Lessons from building and growing startups in SV How Blake translates some of his own experiences across the rest of the teamThe process for doing due diligence on companiesDealing with startup failureThe process and structure when selling a companyBuilding market dynamics into marketplaces Ps – I just launched Playbook Ventures and our first initiative, the “Investor Connect” event where we are bringing together 20 of the best VCs and Angel Investors to meet with 60 selected startups. To find out more:– Read the blog post– Check out our website (playbookventures.com.au)– Apply for the event Show notes: Potrero Hill, San FranciscoLonely PlanetNileGuideGOOD44XeroChris Ridd (podcast)Rod Drury (Founder of Xero)Luxury EscapesFlippaMatt Mickiewicz (Co-founder of Flippa)Mark Harbottle (Co-founder of Flippa)EnvatoGoogle Optimise (tool)Blake (LinkedIn)Blake (Twitter) Check out my new video series on Youtube! Feedback/connect/say hello:[email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel Credits:Music: Joakim Karud – Dreams Other channels:Don’t have iTunes? The podcast is also available on Soundcloud & Stitcher Audio Player and now also available on Spotify. http://traffic.libsyn.com/startupplaybook/Ep107_-_Blake_Hutchison.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-moz-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea:-ms-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } Copyright © 2015 - Live Composer The post Ep107 – Blake Hutchison (CEO – Flippa) on building market dynamics appeared first on Startup Playbook.