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November 2, 2018 |
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Steve Murch’s BigOven sale is his latest in a series of successful multi-million-dollar exits. Find out how he did it.
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Earlier this year, Steve Murch sold BigOven, a cooking app with over 13 million downloads and more than 4 million members, to Aisle Ahead, Inc., capping off an incredible run of successes:
Steve is the real deal, and in this episode you’ll learn:
In its infancy, Murch sold 20% of VacationSpot to Microsoft because of the traffic Expedia (owned by Microsoft at the time) could generate. When it was time to sell, it was only natural to return to Expedia and invite them to acquire the rest of the business.
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Steve Murch’s career has included leadership positions in online travel, online games, relational databases and telecom. Murch served as Chairman of Escapia (www.escapia.com), the leading SaaS solution for the US vacation rental industry, acquired by HomeAway in 2010. Murch was co-founder, President, CEO and Chairman of VacationSpot.com, a pioneer in the online reservation of vacation rentals, which was sold to Expedia in January 2000 for approximately $87M. At Expedia, Murch was Vice President of Vacation Packages, leading the vacation package and destination services teams, creating two patents on the first-ever dynamic vacation packaging system on the Internet, which now represents billions in annual transactions for Expedia.
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