How Carl Case Built Billion-Dollar Companies Before Turning 31 | The Mindvalley Podcast | Ep #63

13 Jan 2025 · 34 min
33:31

Carl Case sold two companies before 31, including a restaurant-kiosk business valued at $980M. He built a 97% open rate on SMS by collecting 600,000 college phone numbers, and turned 2,000 text signups into 1,200 five-star reviews in two weeks for Lavazza. His playbook: phone numbers, SMS, free trials, and weekly KPI tracking to cut ad spend.

Questions this video answers

Approximately $980 million.

About $100 million (sold database/processing business at a 92× multiple on first-month residuals).

Approximately 600,000 cell phone numbers.

97% of messages are read within three minutes (reported).

About 1.2 million applications to process payments for Office Depot's customers.

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