From the brink of closure to a $5.2 billion sale (with Cornerstone's Adam Miller) | Masters of Scale
About Adam
- Founded Cornerstone OnDemand, scaling to 3,000+ employees in 25 countries
- Sold Cornerstone for $5.2B in 2021, empowering 75M+ learners worldwide
- Pioneered global e-learning, delivering 2B+ courses across 192 countries
- Led Team Rubicon as Chairman, growing it to 150,000+ veteran volunteers
- Seeded Aimmune, enabling first FDA-approved food allergy treatment
From the brink of closure to a $5.2 billion sale (with Cornerstone's Adam Miller) | Masters of Scale
Founded at the dawn of the dot-com era, entrepreneur Adam Miller’s original concept for Cornerstone was a kind of Netflix for adult education: training courses through CD-ROMs. Migrating to online offerings for major corporate clients, Adam steered the company through tough times, including an encounter with a loan shark, markets collapsing, and global crises. By the time he sold the company two decades later – for more than $5.2 billion – Adam learned essential lessons about how to scale during uncertainty.
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