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Exit Stories

Applicant Stack’s Nathan Shackles Shares His Bootstrapped Journey To a Strategic Exit

  • S1E3
  • 26:10
  • September 7th 2020

Nathan Shackles, solo founder and former CEO of Applicant Stack, joins Kevin Mosley to talk about how he built a company with solid fundamentals, ignored any labels associated with bootstrapping, negotiated strongly when he didn’t have to sell, and ultimately found a great strategic fit with Swipe Clock.

Exit Stories

Exit Stories features tech founders, buyers, and sellers from the Triangle, North Carolina and the Southeast to tell their stories about raising capital and selling their startups.

This program is produced by GrepBeat and hosted by Kevin Mosley of Jurassic Capital.

Meet the Host

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Kevin Mosley
General Partner at Jurassic Capital

Kevin is a General Partner at Jurassic Capital, a Durham, NC-based Growth Equity firm focused on growing B2B software companies in the Southeast. Alongside cofounder Joe Colopy, Jurassic’s deep entrepreneurial and operating experience from Bronto and other SaaS companies helps grow and scale capital-efficient companies over $1M in Revenue. They recently closed a $20M+ fund and have portfolio companies building software in HR  (Workdove), B2B eCommerce (Corevist), and Test Automation (Cycle Labs).


Kevin spent his pre-Jurassic career operating at growth-stage software companies, including Sageworks, Lulu, Bronto, and Republic Wireless/Relay. He graduated with a BS in Finance from Clemson and loves spending time with his wife in the Triangle as well as watching and playing all sports, especially golf and tennis.