Deal Lift

The Spreadsheet That Became a $10 Billion Revolution

From Startup to IPO Runway: The Navan Founder Playbook

How Ariel Cohen & Ilan Twig turned a booking pain into a travel-tech super-app, raised over a billion dollars, rebranded as Navan, and are now targeting a multi-billion-dollar IPO

🥜 How Nerdy Nuts Turned Peanut Butter into a $16M Brand (Powered by TikTok 💥)

From Hydration Hack to 8-Figure Brand: How Cadence Cracked the Electrolyte Game

From 78 Subscribers to $20 M/yr: How 1440 Turned Daily Digest Emails into a 4-Million Reader Media Business

They started with a plain-text email to 78 friends. They ignored sensational headlines, kept the format simple—and scaled to 4.4 M readers and ~$20 M+ annual revenue. Here’s how 1440 turned clarity into cash.

Superpower Turned Personal Health Trauma into a $300M Bio-Age Startup

From life-threatening misdiagnoses to a 150,000-person waitlist and a $30M Series A — this is how three founders transformed trauma into one of the fastest-growing health-tech companies of 2025.

🏕️ From Van Life to a $100M+ Exit

He turned a $1,500 problem into a global stock media platform, lived out of an RV to run it, and sold to private equity. Here’s how Joel Holland built Storyblocks — and the lessons founders can steal from his decade-long grind.

🎙️ From an Idea in a Bar to a Media Powerhouse

How Acquired Podcast Went From a Bar Idea to a $100M Media Powerhouse — Community, Storytelling & Slow Burn Growth Strategy

How Supabase Jumped From $2B to $5B in 4 Months

Two engineers, one personal frustration, and a relentless shipping culture turned a Firebase workaround into a $5B open-source developer platform in just five years. Here’s the breakdown of Supabase’s founder playbook.

🥗 Turning a Weight Loss Journey into a $500M Business

Plus: A raw transformation story, strategic TikTok domination, $1M sales days, and a $90M funding round — this is the no-fluff breakdown of how Bloom Nutrition engineered a cult following and half-a-billion-dollar valuation without traditional VC money.

🍵 How a Student’s Matcha Fix Sparked a £140M Clean Energy Drink Empire

Meet Marisa Poster & PerfectTed — the founders who turned anxiety, caffeine crashes, and a Kickstarter campaign into the biggest Dragons’ Den success story ever

💳 From “Expense Reports That Don’t Suck” to a $3B IPO

David Barrett set out to build a debit card. He ended up creating one of the most iconic SaaS companies of the 2010s — and learned a brutal lesson about listening to the market (and staying relevant).