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This September, we’re launching the Founders Roundtable Series, an eight-session monthly gathering bringing Charleston founders and entrepreneurial leaders together to connect, share ideas, learn from one another, and help shape the future of technology and entrepreneurship in our community.
The inaugural event, “The Jump from Entrepreneur to Founder,” will tackle a pivotal moment in the journey of any company builder: the transition from entrepreneur to founder.
We’ll kick things off with networking and an interactive founder roundtable exploring the mindset shifts, challenges, and opportunities that come with making that leap.
The second hour will feature Barry Stamos, a three-time exited founder and CEO of Supernova, a collective of 250+ exited founders who have built and sold their own companies and now invest in, advise, and serve as operating partners to the next generation of builders.
Barry has built companies for 25+ years. His first, INBOX Marketing, became Responsys, went public, and sold to Oracle for $1.6 billion. His second, Videoo, failed after four years chasing product-market fit. As a founding partner at Acxiom, he built a business unit from zero to $318 million that exited to IPG for $2.3 billion. He is also co-founder and Chief Heart Officer of 1heart.com, a startup studio and human accelerator with 1,000+ alumni worldwide.
As a founding advisor, Barry has helped build category leaders. He backed Colossal Biosciences, the first de-extinction company, which raised a total of $615 million to become a decacorn in under four years and established the Colossal Foundation with $100 million to support habitat restoration and genetic rescue. He also backed Tuft & Needle as it bootstrapped to $250 million in ARR before merging with Serta Simmons. He also backed and served as Head of Investor Relations at Arora Project, an equity crowdfunding agency that raised $115 million-plus for startups before its exit to Republic. Prior to that, Barry was the Entrepreneur in Residence at 500 Global, one of the most active VCs globally, where he supported startups chosen for their flagship accelerator program out of San Francisco.
Barry lives in Mount Pleasant, SC with his wife Christine and two teenage boys, Beau and Nico.
