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Ep 564 7x on Paper. Break Even in Cash. Adam Spector on Staying in the Game After a Sale.
Thursday, 17 September, 2026
Adam Spector co-founded LiftIgniter in 2014, which used machine learning to personalize websites the way YouTube does. Growth stalled, and with no way to prove the company was causing the results customers saw, it could never charge what the work was worth. The board brought in a new CEO to sell, and when Adam argued to keep building he was outvoted two to one. It sold in 2018, mostly for its engineers, and he left soon after. Like a lot of owners, he wanted to stay in the game. Keeping a hand in, backing people doing interesting work, staying near the part of the job he really enjoyed. For Adam that meant putting money into other people's startups. More than a decade in, that portfolio shows seven to eight times on paper. In cash, it is roughly break even.
