LaCivita: Firstborn reached $27M–$28M revenue and 100 employees before sale
Dan LaCivita · Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation? · Mar 14, 2022 · at 2:45
Play CEO Dan LaCivita discusses the scale and finances of his previous digital agency, Firstborn, before its acquisition by Dentsu.
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“Yeah, we were doing around 27, twenty eight million dollars annual revenue, about a hundred people.”
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