A few weeks ago, Wiley Cerilli, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, told his wife that Constant was willing to buy his single platform at a price of $100 million.
If the deal goes well, look at what the Wiley Cerilli wants:
Buy a washing machine and dryer.
With a TV
Buy some socks
The entrepreneur said it was unthinkable that something else was needed.
Finally, the acquisition was successfully completed.
As the founder of the company, only financing 4.5 million of dollars, and now because of this 100 million dollar acquisition, Wiley Cerilli suddenly become a rich person.
At the end of the deal, we interviewed Wiley Cerilli and the single platform executive team.
"How does it feel to suddenly become so rich?"
"It's like Dreaming," Wiley Cerilli exclaimed.
Take a look at his entrepreneurial story:
Sales experience, work experience accumulation
Wiley Cerilli is governor of Rhode Island, and he's always been a busy man. He's not the programmer you think, but a salesman. He and his friend, Irving Fain, are known as sales geniuses at the University of Brooklyn, whether it's selling flowers, lemonade or T-shirts.
"If you can sell all the roses in college on a hot day, then what can't be sold?" Fain tells Wiley Cerilli at the time of Deeds, "Wiley Cerilli sell things really effortless." He seems to have a magical power over the consumer, as long as he's standing in those stores and not having a few minutes, these people are his customers! "
Wiley Cerilli says he learned a lot from his father. His father, a real estate developer, built many different styles of architecture in the Providence, including those without windows. His father invited an artist from the Rhode Island School of Design to paint a beautiful bay window on the building, which could be seen on the freeway. He said he wanted to do the same thing and draw a beautiful window on his own building. I can see that Wiley Cerilli very much like his father's work. Wiley Cerilli's father died of cancer when he was 16 years old.
Cerilli spent a year at the University of Tin Syracuse, but soon found himself unfit for the university. So he switched to NYU so he could work and attend lectures. Cerilli's first apartment is relatively small, impressive is the room filled with inflatable mattress bed, often lying on the top of their sleep when there will be a variety of problems.
Cerilli dropped out at least 5 times and never graduated, but then began his technical career. He first worked on a rocketboard website and became an early employee of seamless. Seamless is a reservation site created by Jason Finger.
After Seamless was acquired, Cerilli already had hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth. At that time, he was only willing to buy some socks.
Cerilli and his wife met through a dating website. Even though Cerilli has never been worried about having a girlfriend, it is true that making friends through Match.com is a very effective way to not delay your work. Cerilli said, in Match.com see his wife's information, think she is too perfect, can be described as a "see" Love!
In 2010, Cerilli began to combine its sales experience, work experience, and local businesses to create a single Platform, dedicated to helping local small businesses to trade online and manage shelves.
Charlie ODonnell, is a single Platform the first round of financing investors.
"Expanding local sales is a more difficult thing, and Wiley Cerilli is one of the few people who can do it," ODonnell, speaking about his experience with Cerilli, "his experience at Seamless made him more advantageous than anyone else I met." ”
In the first round of financing, single platform received $1.2 million trillion in funding for the second round of funding last summer, with $3.25 million trillion.
Despite the support of investors, single platform has gone a lot of detours. 15 months ago, Cerilli never thought it would happen.