BUILDING SINCE 1998 · NOT REVIEWED BY DEREK
Derek
Sivers
“Author of “Useful Not True”, “How to Live”, “Hell Yeah or No”. Former musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.”in their words · bsky.app
about $20M /yr
CD Baby revenue
● last reported Dec 2009about $100M
CD Baby, total so far
stated · 2008$22M
from selling 1 product
sum of stated prices10
products
1998
building since
Career
Every main product, who ran it, and when it changed hands.
HostBaby1999 – 2008
sold
→ Disc Makers
CD Baby1998 – 2008
$22,000,000
→ Disc Makers
Side projects8
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Derek runs ita new owner runs itsold, with the stated priceshut downside project
The journey
Sold CD Baby for $22 million (2008), then wrote five books
Milestones
about $100M
total · CD Baby
2008 · stated
about $20M
/yr · CD Baby
Dec 2009 · old
Latest
Dec 2015On The Tim Ferriss Show, episode 125
Oct 2015On “The Outsider” on the builttosell.com podcast
Feb 2010On TED2010, “How to start a movement”
Aug 2008Sold CD Baby to Disc Makers$22,000,000
Aug 2008Sold HostBaby to Disc Makers
How sure are we?
10 verified by someone other than Derek46 stated by Derek in public3 outdated, older than our limits
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