Mike McDerment

While running his own design firm, Mike McDerment once accidentally saved over an invoice and recognized an unmet need in the market.

Today, Mike is co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the world’s #1 accounting software in the cloud for self-employed professionals and their employees. In 2003, he started FreshBooks from his parents’ basement in Toronto. Since then Mike and his team have dedicated themselves to executing extraordinary experiences every day. More than 10 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing, look professional, ditch the paperwork and focus on what they love, all while collecting billions of dollars.

Mike has also authored ‘Breaking The Time Barrier’—a guide to using value-based pricing to unlock your true earning potential—which has been downloaded more than 250,000 times.