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Founders Talk 54: From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-07-06 14:00:00
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When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact and ultimately disrupt the photography industry. In this episode, Mikael shares the backstory of Unsplash, how it got started, keeping things focused, levers of growth, flipping the marketing funnel, turning free into a business, raising $7.25 million to build a new economy for photography, and the impact of an API.

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