Live Your Edge Podcast
Lessons Learned from Helping Millions of Dog Walkers, Raising $360 Million in Venture Capital and Giving Back w/ Brendan Rogers
Episode Summary
Brendan Rogers, Co-Founder & Leading Recruiting of Wag Labs, has raised over $360 million in venture capital, most recently $300 million from Softbank's Vision Fund. Wag! connects pet parents to dog walkers and is currently live in over 110 U.S. cities. He co-founded a social discovery service to meet new people which grew to over 50 million users in over 10 countries and was acquired by IAC in 2014.
Episode Notes
Some of the topics we will discuss on the show:
- How to approach investors for funding (the sustainable way)
- Building relationship with your product/ service's early adopters.
- How do you know if a founder is asking the right questions?
- Importance of having customer success stories.
- What does being a mentor get you that investing doesn’t?
- Reclaiming the fire of starting a company through this one thing
- Key to building a powerful personal brand
- How do mentors decide which companies to mentor?
- The smart way to find mentors
- Instead of trying to go viral, try this instead
- And more!
Brendan Roger's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-rogers