Episode 137: Jeremy Hitchcock and Gray Chynoweth, Minim

The VentureFizz Podcast

For Episode 137 of The VentureFizz Podcast, I interviewed Jeremy Hitchcock and Gray Chynoweth of Minim. Manchester, NH…or for you insiders, Manchvegas… it is where I grew up. My dad was an entrepreneur and he ran a leather coat factory in the historic mill buildings there. The same mill buildings were the home to a major tech company that played a key role in keeping the internet running (for real) and it was called Dyn - the leading cloud-based Internet performance and DNS provider. The company was started by WPI students and it went on to scale to an eventual acquisition by Oracle for a reported $600M. Jeremy Hitchcock was the CEO of Dyn and one of its co-founders. He is on to his next company which is called Minim. Gray is also an alum of Dyn and is now Minim’s CEO. Minim, as they put it, is on a mission to make home WiFi as safe and reliable as drinking water through its IoT platform that enables and secures a better connected home. The company is backed by Founder Collective and Flybridge Capital Partners. In this episode, we cover: * The current state of the tech scene in New Hampshire. * A deep dive into the story of Dyn from the early beginnings to acquisition. * All the details on Minim and their technology. * Advice for founders on raising capital. * A discussion about the acquisition process. * Recruiting members to your Board of Directors. * And more! If you like the show, please remember to subscribe and review us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play.