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How He Launched 14 Startups and Never Looked Back

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14 startups in 20 years. Serial entrepreneur Ammar Kubba on launching 14+ companies over two decades, from Thought Convergence to DomainTools, and what he looks for before buying a domain.

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  1. 00:00Intro
  2. 04:15Law school, $180K in debt, and why he never planned to be a lawyer
  3. 10:30How a client’s domain portfolio led to TrafficZ and a handshake deal with Google
  4. 22:45The Marchex acquisition that didn’t happen and the Yahoo deal that did
  5. 33:00Buying DomainTools right before the 2008 market crash and going through with it anyway
  6. 44:00Why Aftermarket.com failed without a registrar and what he would do differently
  7. 52:00The three things he now requires before investing in any startup
  8. 01:04:00Stoicism, pickleball, and why he can’t go a day without thinking about domain names
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