From $1,000 to $300M: The Wild Story of How Dan Novaes Raised $60M Without a Single VC | Ep 274 with Dan Novaes Founder of Mode Mobile
In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Dan Novaes, the visionary behind Mode Mobile. What began as a $1,000 project at age fifteen evolved into a company now valued at over $300 million—with more than 57,000 shareholders. Novaes opens up about the brutal realities of scaling, the crash that…
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