Summary
Mike Reining is a serial founder and product-driven CEO with over two decades of experience building consumer education and personal development businesses from the ground up. He bootstrapped Mindvalley to $20M in annual sales and later founded Innovative Investments, which has launched 200+ educational apps, amassed 50M+ downloads, and reached seven-figure profits without outside funding or paid advertising. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering (self-taught Swift developer of a million-user app) and high-level strategy, he runs distributed teams across Malaysia and Ukraine using agile practices. His strength is turning constrained resources into scalable products through rigorous optimization, ASO, and word-of-mouth growth. Based in Vancouver and Stanford-educated, he pairs corporate strategy experience from roles at eBay and BCG with a lifelong passion for learning and creating accessible educational tools. An underappreciated detail: many of his successes hinge on building in-house analytics and deployment tooling long before off-the-shelf options existed.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Business, BBA Business at University of Michigan
MBA Entrepreneurship High Tech Marketing, MBA Entrepreneurship High Tech Marketing at Stanford University
German, English