Marc J. Gorlin is a serial entrepreneur who founded Roadie in 2014 when he needed a few boxes of tile from a warehouse a few miles away.
Before starting Roadie, Marc co-founded and was Chairman of Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses. To date, Kabbage has raised more than $250 million in venture funding and has a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities. The company has provided over $3.5 billion in capital to small businesses.
In 1996, Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy (“PGP”), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet, popularized in the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth, and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997.
After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million.
Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A, and security issues.
Marc is an active speaker on serial entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture funding. Marc has spoken at SXSW, RILA Supply Chain, The Montgomery Summit, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among others. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and remains an avid Bulldog fan.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode
- The concept behind Roadie (how and why the brand was established)
- Growth of the platform since its inception
- Retail trends and same-day delivery
- Impact of Roadie in helping small businesses
- The COVID crisis, and how Roadie is a solution for helping businesses of all sizes
- Recent growth (new agreements with large entities like Tractor Supply)
- Tractor Supply case study highlights
- Projecting for the balance of 2020
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