The Road to the Extraordinary - Rick Stollmeyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Mindbody [S2.E4]

Rick Stollmeyer co-founded Mindbody in 2001 and is still the CEO
20 years later. This is his story as much it is Mindbody’s story;
from his learnings as a nuclear submarine engineer, to selling CD
ROM software from his garage with his co-founder Blake Beltram,
to now scaling a multinational software company. 


Rick is one of the most passionate and deeply mission-driven CEOs
you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. A high performer in
every sense, motivated by solving complex problems through the
power of collaboration - I think this could be my favourite
interview of the entire podcast project.


We talk about the Mindbody journey and its bootstrapped founding
story, its growth to a venture capital-backed start-up and then a
public company, right through to being taken private in 2018 by
Vista Partners for Us$1.9 billion. This journey has had its ups
and downs, triumphs, and challenges, all met with the same hunger
he possesses today. Sit back and enjoy the reflections of one of
the world's finest entrepreneurs 


This episode was recorded in the first week of March, well before
the full impacts of Covid-19 in the US could have been imagined.
The messages though are timeless. 


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