Episode 81

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1st Apr 2022

Ep. 81 David Thorpe, CEO & Founder, Upperline Health

The secret of growing a start-up by 44x in 3 years

While managing two start-ups simultaneously, and starting a family, David Thorpe built Upperline Health from the ground up with a mission to disrupt specialty healthcare by bringing value-based care to narrower segments within the healthcare system.

Over the past 5 years, Upperline Health branched out across 6 states, and was named the fastest growing practice out of its home base in Nashville, TN. Upperline Health's 3-year growth rate is a staggering 4,438%, and today it is the nation’s largest practice dedicated to lower extremity care with providers in AL, TN, IN, CA, FL, and GA.

How did he do it? David’s work and personal life are not in conflict. He describes a love for his work and for his family that does not require him to put up arbitrary walls, nor to divide himself between the two. His compassion and dedication to delivering the highest-quality healthcare services to the community have skyrocketed Upperline Health to the top of the private sector of the healthcare industry.

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Jordan Selleck is a recovering investment banker turned 3x entrepreneur. While teaching English in China, Jordan met an investment banker in a bar and before he knew it he’d spent six years in cross-border investment banking advising global corporates and private equity firms on M&A deals up to $250 million.

As much as Jordan loved investment banking, he always knew he was meant to do something more. In 2016, Jordan founded Debtmaven, a deal management platform for debt financing in the lower middle market. It was while he was marketing Debtmaven on LinkedIn that Jordan found his true passion: building meaningful relationships in the lower middle market.

Seeing over 50% of Debtmaven’s $450million+ in deals come from LinkedIn, he realized he’d found an untapped market and began his journey with LinkedIn consulting. Dozens of clients and a handful of extraordinarily talented employees later, 51 Labs is a thriving marketing agency for the lower middle market that produces captivating content and generates organic traffic across LinkedIn.

Jordan was born in San Diego, grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a fourth-generation private pilot, SCUBA dives, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and is a husband and father of 2.