Andrew Gazdecki is not your typical Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He doesn’t say he’s out to save the world or change it. He’s not trying to sell you the moon and raise millions from venture capitalists. He did not drop out of college.
His latest venture, Acquire.com, formerly known as MicroAcquire, is more of a passion project — it’s a marketplace for founders to make their exit and sell their companies for a few thousand up to millions of dollars. Having been in the position of selling a company, he wanted to develop better tools for founders to sell their startups.
In the Bay Area, a lot of founders are proud of dropping out of college and kind of wear that like a badge of honor. You're not like that? I can’t remember what role. But I do remember the reason I didn’t get the job. I got into the fourth interview, which is like the final interview. And they keep saying this thing, “Be your authentic self.” And there’s variations of how you can say that, like, oh, just be yourself. And so I’m like, there’s some Kool-Aid going on around here. And so there’s 10 people around the table.