Pujji: Red Ventures built a $75M EBITDA business selling DirecTV subscriptions
Jesse Pujji · Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich · Aug 26, 2024 · at 29:55
Jesse Pujji describes how Red Ventures scaled its initial breakthrough business model as an authorized digital dealer for DirecTV.
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“And in four years, they built a seventy-five million dollar EBITDA business just selling DirecTV subscriptions because they would run the media, take the phone calls, and all these things that are commonplace today where like what you do on your website gets cookied and then you know on the phone call, they were pioneers in all of that stuff.”
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