Marini: Tickle Reached Top 20 Globally and Sold to Monster for $100M
Rick Marini · Building the Future of Crypto Trading with Rick Marini of Rails | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · May 26, 2026 · at 2:35
Rick Marini, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Rails, recalls the early 2000s trajectory and acquisition of his first startup, Tickle.
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“Tickle became a top-twenty site in the entire world. At one point, we had a lot of traffic, and we sold that company to Monster which was a big company back then for a hundred million. So that was a great outcome. We had only raised one round of capital,”
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