S5 Bonus: From Wall Street's 'Big Short' to $25M Bootstrapped SaaS Engine with Adam Robinson of Retention.com (formerly GetEmails)

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Sep 23, 2021 · 26m

Adam Robinson has had an interesting path into the tech world. He started out at Lehmen Brothers, and eventually Barclays, as a credit default swap trader. He spent 10 years doing the job that the movie the Big Short was written about. And he loved it.

Back in the day, his first roommates in New York were the founders of Vimeo, and he was inspired by what they built and by being a tech entrepreneur in general. Once he saved up some cash, he decided to jump out and give the tech world a try. Through lots of learnings and mistakes, he eventually re-trained the way he thought to align with the…