Startup Sense Podcast

Rob LoCascio is one of our more successful entrepreneurs on the podcast because he's already taken his company LivePerson public but more interestingly is that he did it back in 2000 at the peak of the dot-com bubble. Rob was the solo-founder of LivePerson which is the world's largest messaging platform for some of the biggest brands and companies we know and love such as Microsoft, IBM, Intuit, Adobe, Ted Baker, Virgin Atlantic, United Way and hundreds more. LivePerson raised $40 million from their IPO and at the time Rob still owned 20% of the company (he still owns 10% today). LivePerson has 1,100 employees spread across 12 global offices and now gets 50% of their revenue from outside the U.S. LivePerson currently has a market cap of $775 million. In this interview I had a great time chatting with Rob about his journey of taking LivePerson from startup to IPO to now being a public company for 17 years. I asked him what it's like to be a public company CEO, what does LivePerson do, who are their clients, ho