24six9 Dxb Chapter: Founders Talk
24six9 Dubai Chapter presents Founders Talk with a team coming in from USA
Title: Unlocking Your First (Or Next) $1M
Speakers
Tyrone Hazen
Founder/Head of Partnerships - Puffin Drinkwear
A a founder, operator, and fractional CXO who specializes in building and scaling consumer product businesses. He is the founder of Puffin Drinkwear, a brand he launched in 2019 that went on to create a new product category and rank as one of the fastest-growing consumer goods companies in the U.S., earning recognition from Inc. Magazine for rapid growth.
Today, Tyrone works directly with founders as a hands-on advisor and fractional executive, helping early- and growth-stage companies move from chaos to clarity across product, operations, go-to-market, and systems. His approach is practical and execution-driven, grounded in real operating experience rather than theory.
Alex Golimbievsky
Growth Coach | Partner, ExitStudio
A serial entrepreneur and investor who has built four technology companies. The first two were hard failures. The next two became 7- and 8-figure acquisitions. He has coached hundreds of founders and is a repeat coach and judge on The Blox - the entrepreneurial reality series streaming on Prime Video.
Alex helps entrepreneurs focus on three things that drive outsized outcomes: achieving true product-market fit, discovering scalable growth channels and revenue strategies, and building the right team through strong hiring, interviewing, and leadership systems.
Moderator
Kanishka Wanninayaka
CEO, YAMU Media | Founder, ExitStudio
A serial entrepreneur who builds profitable, performance-driven businesses across D2C, services, and SaaS. His approach is shaped by a non-traditional journey, from growing up in rural Sri Lanka, to living in Dubai, to building companies in New York, giving him a grounded, global view of value creation.
He is also the founder and CEO of a revenue-share performance marketing firm built on aligned incentives, and the founder of ExitStudio, a holding company that acquires and scales profitable D2C, service, and SaaS businesses with strong fundamentals and clean exit paths.
Kanishka has invested in and advised multiple companies and is a repeat coach and judge on The Blox on Prime Video. Everything he builds is filtered through one thesis: build companies that positively impact humanity for the next thousand years.