Moe Abbas
- Co-Founder and CEO at Acadium Inc
GetLatka interview
How Acadium Reached More Than 3,000 Business Members and 70,000 Apprentices Since Launch (Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Moe Abbas)
Moe Abbas (Co-Founder and CEO of Acadium Inc) spoke to Nathan Latka on April 29, 2021.
Acadium Inc figures from the interview
- Active Business Customers (2021)
- 3,000+
- Apprentices on Platform (Cumulative) (2021)
- 70,000+
- First-Year Revenue (2018)
- $70,000
- Team Size (2021)
- 20
- Total Funding Raised
- About $1M
“Acadium is a marketplace that enables anyone with an Internet connection to launch a career and come to an apprenticeship with a business owner, get work experience, skills, relationship. It's totally free. It's ten hours a week. It's on their own schedule.”
“We had no revenue for a while, we were close to death for a while, and it came to the point where we just had to hustle, and I ended up signing the first 300 businesses myself, just really hustling in Facebook groups.”
“We went from $0 to 30 or 40 k in revenue pretty quickly. Then ... we went from 0 to 70 k in revenue within the first year.”
Bio
Moe started his first landscaping business when he was 18. He sold that and started a residential design and build company that he grew to one of the largest in North America. After reaching the top of his industry he wanted a new challenge where his work could have a positive impact on the world. Moe then founded Acadium as a way to enable economic mobility to anyone with an internet connection.