TOM JAKLITSCH

Co-Founder and CTO of Order

Meet Tom Jaklitsch:

Tom Jaklitsch began his journey to found the fintech startup Order after working at an accelerator in high school. He designed the first few years of his college experience to prepare him for starting the company, which he launched in 2016 with his co-founder Zach Garippa as part of Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator at 20 years old. Today, Order has 150 employees and has raised of $50mm from prominent VCs, is valued at over $150mm, and services hundreds of millions of dollars of business spending annually. In this talk, he detailed how he approached preparing for entrepreneurship, hard lessons learned with rapid fundraising and product development, and a few keys to Order’s continuous 200-300% annual growth and industry leading 200+% net dollar retention.