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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Darren Wercinski Put a Software Company Where Hockey Parents Were Already Looking
Founder · Operator · Executive

Darren Wercinski Put a Software Company Where Hockey Parents Were Already Looking

A state-champion hockey player saw an information problem at the rink, financed the answer with hometown checks, and spent two decades turning an ad network into durable software.

darren-wercinski · reach-media-networkRead →
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The Firm That Bets on Founders Who Never Took a Dime
Vc · Saas · Fintech

The Firm That Bets on Founders Who Never Took a Dime

For 22 years, Mainsail Partners has written checks to software founders who bankrolled their own companies - then handed them an operating team instead of a lecture.

growth-equity · private-equityRead →
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The Dhaka Company Quietly Building WordPress’s Business Layer
Saas · Ecommerce · Enterprise

The Dhaka Company Quietly Building WordPress’s Business Layer

From a rented house in Bangladesh to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide, weDevs built a product company around one practical bet: small firms should be able to run serious operations without assembling an enterprise software stack.

wedevs · wordpress-pluginsRead →