150: Buy Back Your Time with Dan Martell

<p><strong>The Business of Meetings – Episode 150 – Buy Back Your Time with Dan Martell</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have the great pleasure of speaking with Dan Martell, the founder of the SaaS Academy, today. Dan has just launched a book called</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Buy Back Your Time</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan became a millionaire at twenty-seven and he joins us to tell his story and share his understanding and experience.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you will enjoy listening to today’s insightful and inspiring conversation with Dan Martell!</span></p> <p><strong>Bio:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan Martell is an entrepreneur, angel investor, thought leader, and highly sought-after coach in the SaaS, or software as a service, industry. He founded, scaled, and successfully exited three technology companies within a ten-year period. In 2012, he was named Canada’s top angel investor, having invested in more than 50 start-ups, such as Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce. In 2016, Martell founded the SaaS Academy and grew it to become one of the largest coaching companies in the world. He is also an Ironman athlete, philanthropist, husband, and father of two incredible boys.</span></p> <p><strong>Dan’s journey</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan grew up in a crazy environment where his mother was an alcoholic and his dad often traveled and was seldom around. Dan had tons of energy and was always pushing the limits and organizing things like wars with the neighborhood kids. Everything fell apart when he got introduced to drugs at a very young age, became an addict, got put into group homes, crisis centers, foster care, and ended up in juvenile detention. From there, things spiraled out of control until Dan found himself imprisoned for six months. He was released to a live-in rehab center and spent 11 months working on himself. During that time, his mo