Brad Gilbert

Former Founder & CEO, UpSync · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brad Evan Gilbert owned and operated People Productions, a Boulder, Colorado-based multimedia and video production agency, for over 25 years before selling the business. In 2009, he founded UpSync, a mobile sales-enablement and presentation content management SaaS platform.

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Opinion

Gilbert: There is no reason to shut down Upsync while profitable

“The upsync is profitable, and as long as it's profitable, there's no reason not to keep it going.”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 6:52 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

Disclosure

Gilbert: Intense developer competition in Boulder led him to stop funding Upsync

“One of the reasons I got out of Doing Upsync and really putting more money into it, and particularly in a place like Boulder, Colorado, the competition for developers is incredibly intense. That everybody, every developer thinks they want to be working on the …”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 13:59 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

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Gilbert: Over $3M Was Invested into Developing Upsync

“We put over, over three million dollars into the tool, so it's a very cool, fun.”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 7:52 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

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Gilbert Spent $500K Personally Trying to Take Upsync Public

“Then I spent you know, half a million of my own money trying to take it public and, you know, raise capital and make it.”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 8:22 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

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Gilbert: Upsync initial client had over 10,000 users across 100+ countries

“So originally this was built for a client, and at their height they had over 10,000 users, over 20,000 assets. It was in Over a hundred countries and 17 languages. They're a multinational corporation, a global 100 company. Fortune 100 company.”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 2:52 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

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Gilbert: People Productions generated several million dollars annually

“People Productions was a, you know, we had several million dollars in revenue a year, and I switched a lot of resources over to Upsync”

Brad Gilbert Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 6:30 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

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Insight

Latka: Keeping minimally profitable startups alive without kill criteria is dangerous

“Nobody puts parameters in place for when to kill something, right? And this is like, the rationale you just used, I think is just dangerous for, especially people that haven't had your success, right? If their logic is, if it's profitable, if it's making a dol…”

Nathan Latka Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 11:47 1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1446 Why Doesn't He Shut Down $2500/mo, 20+ year old business?	Jul 10, 2019	9m

Brad Gilbert

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