Karl brings over two decades of executive-level experience building and growing technology businesses and spends his time at M13 across all functions of the business, specifically overseeing the Propulsion Team and running the firm. Karl is a tech investor, serial entrepreneur, and most well known for building DigitalOcean from the ground up, which is one of the fastest-growing cloud infrastructure companies that is becoming a strong challenger to Amazon.
DigitalOcean is valued now at over $10 billion. Ticket symbol is DOCM.
Karl was also the Co-founder + CEO for China Export Finance, and Co-founder + CEO for Clearview Networks.
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Mike Saunders, MBA
Mike Saunders is theAuthority Positioning Coach at Marketing Huddle, the author of Amazon Bestselling book Authority Selling™, Adjunct Marketing Professor at several Universities, contributor to The Huffington Post, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council – an invitation-only community for the World’s Most Influential Business Coaches.
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- Interview with Paige Velasquez Budde, Co-Founding Partner and CEO of Zilker Media - July 28, 2025