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Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest in digital businesses, ft Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison

Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest in digital businesses, ft Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison

Update: 2025-10-19
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This episode was originally featured on the Australian Investors Podcast.




In this Australian Business Podcast episode, your host Owen Rask chats with Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, about:




– How Flippa became the world’s largest marketplace for digital businesses


– Why investors are flocking to Shopify, YouTube, and AI-driven businesses


– The infrastructure behind small business M&A in the digital age


– What it takes to successfully buy or sell an online business




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Topics Covered


– Blake Hutchison’s career journey from Lonely Planet and Zero to Flippa


– How Flippa helps entrepreneurs buy and sell digital businesses globally


– The most in-demand assets: Shopify, YouTube, and AI businesses


– Why digital businesses trade at lower multiples than public companies


– How Flippa solves the “cold start problem” in marketplaces


– Deal flow, matching technology, and AI in small business M&A


– Examples of entrepreneurs and strategic buyers using Flippa


– Blake’s advice to his younger self on career and growth




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Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest in digital businesses, ft Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison

Shopify, YouTube, AI & Instagram: how to invest in digital businesses, ft Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison

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