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    This Company Rocks

    David Kalt founded Reverb.com, a Chicago-based online marketplace for musical instruments, after taking an online stock-trading company public. A huge leap? Not really. The two businesses are more similar than you’d think.
    by AS TOLD TO TOM FOSTER Sep 01, 2017 2 minutes
    STRIKING A CHORD Reverb.com founder David Kalt, taking a moment to check out a 1963 Fender Telecaster.

    DAVID KALT Reverb.com → Three-year growth 12,327.2% 2016 revenue $15.7 MILLIION

    I PICKED UP GUITAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, in the suburbs of Detroit, and really fell in love, but I realized I’d never be a virtuoso. After college, I went to Chicago, where I got a job in a recording studio. Working with computers in that job led me into software.

    IN 2000, TWO PARTNERS

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