Matt Mickiewicz

Matt Mickiewicz co-founded SitePoint.com while still in High School, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals. In 2008, Matt spun off 99designs from SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo and Dish Networks. 99designs recently secured $35 million in VC funding from silicon valley based Accel Partners. In June of 2009, Matt and his business partner Mark Harbottle launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling websites via auction. Flippa has sold over $50 million worth of websites with around $2 million worth of website assets changing hands there each month. He won a 2010 Webby Award, has a Top 1000 Alexa ranked website, and one of his businesses was named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Brilliant 100” list (June 2010).