EP 261 - Suneera Madhani

Ellen Yin56min

Ellen Yin

00:00

You're listening to Cubicle to CEO episode 261. when is the right time to exit your business? For Suneera Madhani, it was after taking her Fintech startup stacks from idea to unicorn, a moniker coined for the rare privately held company that reaches a billion dollar valuation after selling to private equity and finding a new CEO to lead the company's next stage of growth. Suneera knew she wanted to return back to the building phase of business. Taking everything she knew about building a billion dollar company, sanira set out to do it again, this time with worth AI, a company creating the first ever credit score for businesses.

Ellen Yin

00:37

In today's case study on lessons from building a billion dollar brand. Sanira shares the wisdom she took from her exit that she's applying to this new venture, so you can borrow her hard earned lessons in hindsight as well.

Ellen Yin

00:54

Welcome to Cubicle to CEO, the podcast where we ask successful founders and CEOs the business questions you can't google. I'm your host. Ellen Yin. Every Monday, go behind the business in a case study style interview with a leading entrepreneur who shares one specific growth strategy they've tested in their own business, exactly how they implemented it and what the results and revenue were. You'll also hear financially transparent insights from my own journey bootstrapping our media company from a $300 freelance project into millions in revenue.

Ellen Yin

01:35

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today, we have sunir Madani here with us. And if you've been in the entrepreneurial world for the last few years, you've seen her face everywhere as she's built a billion dollar brand and is about to do it again. So Suneera, we're so excited to have you here today.

Suneera Madhani

01:52

Ellen, I'm so excited to be here. I feel like we've been trying to make this podcast happen for so long, and I'm so pumped, because I love the format of your show, and so I'm excited to share all the things about building a billion dollar business.

Ellen Yin

02:06

So let's start with your first billion dollar baby. And it's funny to even say that, because it's so rare to even be able to have one unicorn. You know, a unicorn being a company that reaches $1 billion in valuation or more. And that was stacks, right? That was your first business that that reached that valuation and you sold it. And so I kind of want to get into the details of that, as well as how you're utilizing what you learned from building that first billion dollar brand into your new venture at worth.

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