#40 - Josh Anton - Building XMode to an 8 Figure Exit

16/02/2024 46 min

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Episode Synopsis

Josh Anton is the founder of X-mode, a location services company that started out as Drunk Mode, a mobile app allowing college students to track their friends’ whereabouts during a night out. Josh parlayed that location technology into an industry leader in X-mode, and recently sold to Digital Envoy for an undisclosed amount. Josh now serves as Chief Strategy Officer with Digital Envoy. He is a 2014 UVA McIntire graduate.
We spoke with Josh about:

Minimizing risk
Lessons on intellectual property
Listening to your customers
Learning vs. earning
Learning by doing
Knowing yourself
Setting quantitative goals
Mergers/acquisitions
Aligning incentives
Finding co-founders
Selling million dollar contracts

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