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Dave Bell Raised Over $60M as Co-Founder of Playphone

Dave Bell · 1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps · Oct 18, 2019 · at 8:07

Dave Bell, CEO of Gummicube, discusses his entrepreneurial history prior to bootstrapping Gummicube.

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“My last one I was a co-founder of Playfoam where we raised 60 or seventy million dollars.”

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