How We Made It In Ecommerce

Sep 29 2020 11 ep. 35 mins 18
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Weekly interviews with successful eCommerce entrepreneurs brought to you by Capital & Growth. A good balance of both mega giants and smaller, bootstrapped success stories. Get your weekly dose of inspiration and instruction! Get notified when we publish new episodes by using this link: http://bit.ly/31M8yzF CapitalandGrowth.org Hosts: Elyse Hauser and Jasper Kuria

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This Founder Sold His Company for $500 Million then Started a Different Kind of Incubator

Sep 29 2020 30 mins  
Carey Smith is the founder of Unorthodox Ventures and Big Ass Fans, a company that he built to $250 Million in revenue and then sold for half a billion to a private equity firm. We asked Carey Smith how he built Big Ass Fans from scratch, why he sold it, and how he chooses the entrepreneurs to support for his new business Unorthodox Ventures.

Does Social Impact Produce Better Business Results? Cotopaxi CEO Talks Shop

Sep 02 2020 31 mins  
Davis Smith is the CEO of Cotopaxi, a company that sells a premium line of outdoor gear. Before founding Cotopaxi, a B-corp that has been a subject of a Harvard Business School case study, Smith had founded two other companies: baby.com.br and pooltable.com. We asked him how he went from selling baby products in Brazil and pool tables in the US to founding Cotopaxi, and what being

Almost Too Good to Be True: Preventive Healthcare for $149/Month

Aug 27 2020 32 mins  
Adrian Aoun is the CEO of Forward, a preventive healthcare company which he co-founded with former employees of Google and Uber. Aoun is also the founder and former CEO of Wavii, which he sold to Google for $30 Million, and a prolific angel investor with dozens of successful bets including Pinterest and ClassPass. We talked to him about Forward’s business model and mission to rev

Why BeanBox is the Rare, Profitable Subscription Box Business

Aug 19 2020 40 mins  
Matthew Berk is the founder and CEO of BeanBox, the leading online coffee subscription service. BeanBox is an Inc. 5000 company and one of the fastest-growing companies in America with a community that is a couple hundred thousand strong. We talked to Mathew Berk about what makes a subscription business stand out from the crowd, the role technology plays in business today, and Bean

Fritz Lanman: The Man Behind This $1 Billion Fitness Class Sensation

Aug 12 2020 30 mins  
Fritz Lanman is the CEO of ClassPass, one of the fastest growing online fitness startups. ClassPass recently joined the Unicorn Club after getting an valuation of one billion dollars. Lanman is also an angel investor in various successful startups such as Pinterest, Wish, and Square. We talked to him about the creation story of ClassPass, how he became the CEO, and the secrets to i

How Elan Lee Created and Sold 10 Million+ Copies of Exploding Kittens (the popular card game)

Jul 29 2020 33 mins  
Elan Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Exploding Kittens, the popular card game that sold over 10 million copies and set a crowdfunding record by raising 9 Million from 220,000 backers. In this episode of How We Made It In E-Commerce, Elan generously shared his methods for coming up with new ideas, creative business and marketing hacks, and the most important lessons he learned thro

How Crowd Cow Got Celebrities Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana as Investors (w/ Joe Heitzerberg, CEO)

Jul 22 2020 30 mins  
The interesting story behind the idea How Joe got Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana to invest Why they've managed to maintain a 4.99/5 star rating on Google reviews for five years How Joe acquired the initial customers The surprisingly low percentage (discover how much) of revenue spent on marketing

How Dan Shapiro Set a Crowdfunding Record ($28 Million) and Is Transforming How We Make Stuff

Jun 30 2020 45 mins  
The specific tactics Dan used to set a crowdfunding record and raise $28 Million Why Glowforge has one of the lowest customer acquisition costs in the industry Glowforge’s secret to attracting a diverse and inclusive workforce The great giveaway: 2 million of these free devices made by Glowforge are being used by first responders in handling the Covid crisis. What Dan r

How Shayan Zadeh Built and Sold Zoosk for $250 Million--then Acquired This Storied Brand

Jun 12 2020 46 mins  
In this episode we talk to Shayan Zadeh, the co-founder of Zoosk (sold for $250 Million) and now the CEO of Dressbarn. Discover: How he acquired the first 200,000 users overnight for Zoosk and solved the classic chicken-egg problem, common in marketplaces (men won't come till there are women and vice-versa) Did he rig Zoosk to favor himself and get dates with attractive women?

Gumroad: $200 Million Paid Out to Creators by The Guy who "Failed to Build a $1 Billion Business"

Jun 07 2019 34 mins  
By Capital & Growth Your host for this episode: Elyse Hauser Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, an ecommerce platform that allows creators to monetize their wares. As of June 2019 Gumroad has paid out more than $200 million to creators.  He once thought success meant building a billion-dollar company. One very public failure later, he considers himself successful fo