B. While nothing ever goes perfectly smoothly, even for repeat founders, Hahn has demonstrated an incredible talent for bouncing forward, fast. During our interview on the Dealmakers Show Alan gave us a breakdown of his starts and exits, and the lessons he learned in the process. Plus, his strategy for structuring the right mix of investors, and the magic key to hyper-growth startups.
If Silicon Valley VCs could clone anyone to be their golden child capable of consistently delivering fast 10x returns like a printing press, they would probably use Alan Hahn’s DNA.
So far serial entrepreneur Alan Hahn has started six companies he built, scaled, and exited. Including selling his very first company for over
B. While nothing ever goes perfectly smoothly, even for repeat founders, Hahn has demonstrated an incredible talent for bouncing forward fast.
During our interview on the DealMakers podcast, Alan gave us a breakdown of his starts and exits, and the lessons he learned in the process. Plus, his strategy for structuring the right mix of investors, and the magic key to hyper-growth startups.
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- 1. Turning A Layoff Into A Stellar Career In Startups
- 2. Mr. 10x
- 3. SolarX
- 4. Startup Number Six: Mushroom Tech
Turning A Layoff Into A Stellar Career In Startups
Alan was born in NJ to a father who was a chemist in the textile industry. They had a lab at home which he enjoyed experimenting in as a child.
His father’s work ended taking them around the country and world. Including living in China, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Years later, Alan had been working in Nashville when he and his wife were laid off on the same day. So, they picked a new city, and two weeks later they were in Atlanta with a job offer.
This led to Hahn’s first startup gig, as employee number one and cofounder of Shared Technologies Fairchild. It was a telecommunications startup taking advantage of the moment when the industry was being deregulated, and it was finally legal to sell phones and phone systems.
His company differentiated itself further and found their sweet spot and USP in renting their equipment and pitching the financial savings to their B2B customers. That quickly took them from nothing to
00M a year in revenue. Having raised just $40M, the founders exited for
