May 20, 2019
Geoff Cook is a serial entrepreneur and public company CEO. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24. He sold his second company for $100 million. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and livestreaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He has spent $200 million in the last 3 years buying 4 companies as well as launching a NEW podcast app called Podcoin.
During our interview we discuss:
- Geoff shares how and why he started his first company out of his Harvard dorm room.
- We discuss how he started his first social networking site, MyYearBook.com and later sold it for $100 million to a publicly traded company.
- He shares how his new podcast app, Podcoin, works and how it is disrupting the podcast industry.
- We talk about 4 things they did to quick ramp up the new Podcoin app to over 1 million minutes per day listening minutes.
- He shares his theory on user retention and why it is so important to success with an app like Podcoin.
- Geoff shares his favorite growth tool/software.
- He shares one of his favorite books.
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