Episode notes
Sam Sethi talks with Dan Wagner about his three startups MAID, Venda and Rezolve. We talked about how he started MAID in 1984, when he was only 20 before the web and search engines really existed. How he came to be the youngest CEO of Brightstation PLC which was listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Dan talks about the struggles at the end of MAID with the dotcom crash before he sold it to Thomson Reuters.
Dan being a serial entrepreneur was soon onto his next business called Venda but this was eventually sold to Netsuite.
Dan took the core Venda technology to start Powa Technologies, "the Shaazam" for shopping. Powa Technologies, was praised by David Cameron and hailed as a British “unicorn”. Unfortunately it ended badly for Dan with investors and directors.
Dan dusted himself down and has now launched Rezolve.
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