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After building Blue Diesel from a teenage venture into a $6 billion, 15,000-person agency, Schroter channeled three decades of hard-won founder experience into Startups.com, a single platform giving founders tools, capital access, and community they rarely had before.
Wil Schroter is Founder and CEO of Startups.com, a platform providing tools, education, and community for startup founders.
Schroter founded Blue Diesel at age 19, growing it into a top interactive agency that, after merging with inChord Communications, reached over $700 million in capitalized billings and was valued at $6 billion. He later founded Virtucon Ventures, launching Swapalease.com, Fundable.com, and Startups.com, with investment from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Founders Fund, and Bessemer Ventures.
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