Company Sold App Built by Unpaid Intern for $250K
Sam Lillicraft · Startup Acquisition Stories with Sam Lillicrap, Founder of Alignr · Jan 24, 2023 · at 1:53
Sam Lillicrap, founder of Alignr, recounts how an early unpaid internship inspired him to pursue entrepreneurship after the company exited an app he built.
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“And I made an app for this company and two months after I left, they sold it for a quarter of a million.”
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