Adam Robinson roomed with Vimeo and CollegeHumor founders in New York
Adam Robinson · $3M in 12 Months With 5 Employees — Here's the Model · Jan 22, 2021 · at 4:39
Adam Robinson (founder and CEO of GetEmails) describes his early career in New York after graduating college in 2003.
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“I was living with these guys in my first apartment in New York who started Vimeo and College Humor in the apartment we were living in.”
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