Founders Increasingly Building Businesses Around In-Person Gatherings, TechCrunch Reports
Entrepreneurs including Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have built and sold companies centered on bringing people together offline.
A small but growing number of startup founders are building businesses around bringing people together in person, according to TechCrunch.
The report cites Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker as founders who created companies successful enough to be acquired by larger firms. Putnam, a trained ballerina who ran a small chain of boutique fitness studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years after founding it, TechCrunch reported.
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