830: The Meet Group Founder and CEO Geoff Cook

830: The Meet Group Founder and CEO Geoff Cook

Geoff Cook is currently the CEO and co-founder of The Meet Group, a social dating and livestreaming company. He has been on the board of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) since 2011 until its sale in 2020.

Geoff sold the company for $500 million in September 2020 -- one of the last large public deals prior to the declaration of a global pandemic by the WHO. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24 in the year 2002. He sold his second company for $100 million in 2011.

You will discover:

- How he started his first company and exited it for millions

- If selling the company changed the way he approached business

- The surprising tactic that led to myYearbook surpassing a million users in nine months

- The clever way he figured out to build a live streaming feature into his dating apps

- What's trending in China

Geoff Cook is the Founder and CEO of The Meet Group.

Show Mentions

- Geoof's Wired Article
- Foundr Interview
- vPaaS
- Fav app: Clubhouse

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