The Role of Mental Health in the Startup Journey with Aaron White (October 14, 2022)

Serial entrepreneur Aaron White is having a great year. In May, Profitwell, a pricing and retention platform White co-founded, was acquired for $200 million. In February, his SaaS management platform Blissfully was acquired by SaaS buying platform Vendr, where White now serves as chief technical officer. And a few months ago, the Vendr team closed a $150 million series B funding round.

White’s road to success was marked by a number of challenges and setbacks. In addition to a few failed startup attempts, White struggled to maintain his mental health and ultimately had to find a way to balance both his entrepreneurial passion and personal life.

As part of his keynote, White will share his insights on the value of business acumen for technical founders, the power of perseverance, and how to take care of yourself throughout your startup journey.

If you can’t make it to fnSummit 2022, you can still tune in to White’s keynote virtually on October 14, 2022.

About the Speaker

Aaron White is a serial technology entrepreneur, CTO, and indie board-game aficionado. His last few roles include: Creator, Firetower: a revolutionary JavaScript error tracking application, bought by Crashlytics in 2012. Founder, Boundless: a Venrock-backed education startup, producing free online textbooks from openly available materials, acquired in 2013. Board Member ProfitWell (formerly Price Intelligently): bootstrapped SaaS for SaaS, helping companies analyze and act on their customer relationships, as well as optimize their pricing to maximize success. This experience led him to the SaaS consumer side, and the co-founding of Blissfully in 2016. In this role, he helps growing companies that leverage hundreds of vendors and apps take control of their "SaaS sprawl".

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