Michael Collins
entrepreneur in San Diego, CA
Michael Collins
entrepreneur in San Diego, CA
Highlights:
- Raised $1.5M for my last startup, A software dev agency backed by Silicon Valley’s Gokul Rajaram
- $1.2M in sales in just over 1 year for a net new agency
- #1 Account Executive at Builder.ai (2022-2023)
- #1 Account Executive at BuildFire (2018-2021)
- Multiple awards: Salesperson of the Year, Presidents Club, and more
- A decade of technical sales success
- 9 Figures of sales and hundreds of custom software projects
Bio:
I was born the black sheep in a podunk town in North Carolina. I made my first ever software sale at 12 years old. It was a program I wrote on my TI-86 to help solve test problems. Four clients and $20 in net revenue. All bootstrapped.
After college, I did some coding before moving into sales engineering. Then I joined a custom software agency. I developed my own way of selling that let me hit quotas and win top-performer awards in less time than my peers.
In 2023, I co-founded a startup focused on making software development services available on demand and scalable - as easy as an API call. In a year, I brought in over $1.2M in sales and secured $1.5M in funding from Gokul Rajaram, a major force in Silicon Valley, known for backing companies like DoorDash and Facebook.
The services model didn’t grow fast enough, so we pivoted to a new vertical. But it’s not where my passion lies, so I’m looking for what’s next. What are you working on?