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

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Learning Out Loud

Justin Guerra, Marlee Reiter, Chapin Zerner

50 episodes

4 days ago

Learning out Loud publicizes interesting conversations between 3 UVA undergraduates and experts across entrepreneurship, self development, and other fields. Our focus is on uncovering the varying definitions of success and generating actionable next steps to get there through life skills not covered in the classroom. Hosted by Justin Guerra, Marlee Reiter, and Chapin Zerner. Edited by Ray Zerner.

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

Learning Out Loud

46 minutes 55 seconds

1 year ago

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

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