Podcast / interview · Jan 27, 2022

# From Building Websites In Middle School to Managing a $100M/Year Advertising Agency with Alex Melen

Austin, TX

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Born in Kiev, Ukraine, this week’s guest and his family dropped everything and moved from the USSR to New York in the early 1990s barely knowing any English. Fast Forward to today, he is an Award-Winning Serial Entrepreneur who went from starting to build websites in the early 90s, to now managing over $100MM/year in advertising spend for his clients. Alex Melen is this week’s guest on “The Jake Dunlap Show” Alex’s family settled in Washington Heights/Harlem, and he moved to different schools every year until his family resettled in New Jersey. While in Middle School, Alex’s father was in Comp

Date

Jan 27, 2022

Location

Austin, TX

Format

Podcast / interview

Speaker

[Alex Melen](https://www.alexmelen.com/about/)

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