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David Braun Interview – CEO of TemplateMonster for 14 Years – "You’d Be Surprised How Deeply I Am Involved."

If you are in the website development business, you’ve probably stumbled upon a site called TemplateMonster.com. Maybe the blue monster-head logo rings a bell? It might have crossed your mind that the site is pretty big, but just how big? Let’s find out! Here’s my interview with David Braun – the CEO – plus a lot of interesting facts from TemplateMonster’s journey so far.

Let’s start on a high note:

The TemplateMonster marketplace now features 46,000 design templates for the most popular platforms, including WordPress and WooCommerce, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and PrestaShop. Since it was founded in 2002, it has served more than 5 million customers, with 100k people visiting the site each day.

The business is run by a 35 year old CEO – David Braun – who has built a team of 427 people, and through everybody’s combined efforts reached $15M in revenue.

But the journey didn’t start like your typical Silicon Valley startup. Far from it…

Yay! 🎉 You made it to the end of the article!
Sabina Ionescu
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Alex R.
October 8, 2016 2:21 am

David has been away from his business, assisting the Ukrainian Government in reforming the Ministry of Defense

I wish I didn’t read that.
Nevertheless kudos to David. Been using TM at many occasions. Nice to know it was made by an Ukrainian

David Attard
October 7, 2016 11:41 am

An inspiring read. Building a business “mulitple times” and still be one of top players in the industry is not something easy to pull.

Sabina Ionescu
October 7, 2016 4:53 pm
Reply to  David Attard

Yes, you hit the sweet spot. Perseverance in an entrepreneur is a must have. Thanks for stopping by!

Puneet Sahalot
October 6, 2016 9:30 pm

Hello Sabina,
Thanks for sharing such an inspiring story. It’s good to see how things have changed and there’s a lot to learn.
David,
Congratulations on building a successful business and becoming a pioneer in the templates industry. I could have never imagined the ups and downs that a huge business like TM would have had to go through.

Sabina Ionescu
October 7, 2016 7:12 am
Reply to  Puneet Sahalot

Hey Puneet, thank you for reading! There’s so much we still couldn’t cover in this article. When I met David at WordCamp Kiev, after the article was already drafted, he let me in on how they’re fostering innovation inside the company. There’s a whole story (and system) behind it. Maybe next time 🙂

Analytify, LLC
October 19, 2016 3:41 pm
Reply to  Sabina Ionescu

@sabinaionescu:disqus I am waiting for his Part 2 story.
Really inspirational personality he is 🙂

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