Hall: Bynder Incorporated in 2013 as Spinoff from 2008 Agency
Chris Hall · 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP · Feb 18, 2018 · at 7:37
Chris Hall, founder and CEO of digital asset management platform Bynder, describes the company's founding history to host Nathan Latka.
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“So we started in 2013 and it really was sort of a spin off of our of a development agency. I started with a couple of friends of mine and the, you know, that was back in 2008, just the three of us at the kitchen table. And this was sort of a tool we started developing to help ourselves Scratching our own itch. We got a lot of customers. It was always a hassle to get the files, the right files and the right version to them. And that was 2013 when we actually incorporated that as a separate company sort of as a little sister.”
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