Jody Glidden Net Worth: How Rich is the Entrepreneur Actually?

Jody Glidden is a Canadian-born American tech entrepreneur who co-founded the software company, Introhive. He is also an experienced business leader who founded and built three successful agencies and companies, Chalk Media, Schoars.com, and icGlobal. Glidden has been recently in the spotlight for his linkup with The Real Housewives of Miami star, Lisa Hochstein. As of 2023, Jody Glidden net worth is estimated to be around $10 million.

Who is Jody Glidden?

Jody Glidden is an entrepreneur and business leader who co-founded an AI-powered SaaS platform, Introhive. The AI platform has helped many companies improve their sales by understanding their relationship graph and making sense of huge amounts of data. Jody along with co-founder, Stewart has grown Introhive into a SaaS business by making tens of million in revenue.

Glidden was born in September 1973 in Canada. He currently resides in Miami, Florida. Not much detail is available regarding his upbringing and parents. Jody studied at the University of New Brunswick. He started two years of computer science at the University after completing high school. However, after two years, he dropped out to pursue startups. Jody restarted his study in 2003 and completed them in 2005. He has also attended Harvard University where he held a Master’s degree with a specialization in IT Management. 

Jody Glidden Net Worth & Career

Jody Glidden started his career by teaching in the software department of a technology college. During that time, he realized that he could use his programming skills and build software that would help in improving people’s lives. He even built software at school that successfully guided students in their curriculum. Soon after that, he realized he could actually use his passions for teaching, technology, and business by getting into the SaaS tech sector.

In March 1996, he worked as a product and engineering leader for Scholars.com. He built the technical teams and oversaw all aspects of the technology. Along with that, he also worked closely with stakeholders to help evolve their roadmap. In September 1998, Scholars.com was acquired by CBT systems.

He continued working at CBT systems as a product and engineering leader for 11 months until July 1999. Thereafter, he founded icGlobal and worked as the CEO of the company. The company had 2 million in sales in the first year. In April 2001, he began working as a Senior Director at Smartforce. In the company, he assisted with the transition of the acquired company into SmartForce.

Glidden became the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Chalk Media in May 2005. The company created unique mobile software that could track complex multimedia and dates from mobile devices in a secure way. He left Chalk Media in September 2010 and looked after the Content Products at Research in Motion. In the company, he helped build a portfolio of the company’s strategic content products coordinating with the SVP and Blackberry CEO.

In December 2011, he co-founded the software company, Introhive along with Stewart Walchli. Since its inception, the company has raised more than $135 million in funding and made tens of millions in revenue. Jody and Stewart came up with the idea of starting Introhive after they realized the difficulty most organizations are facing to keep their CRM system up to date.

Glidden, being a software engineer figured out that he can solve data issues within six months. However, it took almost four years to solve that issue. While in the process, the two co-founders struggled with customer churn as their data was not good enough. After trying a lot of inbound marketing, they went for more outbound and selected one vertical market to focus on. By doing that, they got on the right path. In one of the interviews, Jody and Stewart talked about their journey where they went from zero to business which is currently on track to hit $100 million ARR in the next two or three years.

Jody Glidden’s Girlfriend & Personal Life

Lisa Hochstein and Jody Glidden

Jody Glidden is reportedly dating The Real Housewives of Miami star, Lisa Hochstein. They were recently spotted getting cozy at Catch Steak on Monday night, December 12 in New York City. A close source shared that there was a lot of canoodling happening between them at the table.

Just after two days on December 14, the pair were caught enjoying another dinner date in New York City. However, Lisa confirmed to a news outlet that she is still single and ready to mingle amid her romance rumors with a software executive.

Jody Glidden Net Worth Timeline

Jody Glidden has earned an estimated net worth of $10 million as of 2023. He has made a whopping amount from running his successful software company, Introhive. The company is reportedly growing its revenues by over 25 percent from quarter to quarter. In fact, the company is achieving the seven-figure range annually from tens of thousands of users.