Made with Grit
15: Grayscale: From non-technical founder to six-figure revenues
Episode Summary
Landon sits down with Ty Abernethy, Co-Founder and CEO of Grayscale to discuss getting to $60K ARR with an MVP, getting blacklisted for sending too many outbound sales emails, and VC vs Bootstrapping.
Episode Notes
Landon sits down with Ty Abernethy, Co-Founder and CEO of Grayscale to discuss getting to $60K ARR with an MVP, getting blacklisted for sending too many outbound sales emails, and VC vs Bootstrapping.
Today’s Topics:
- How Landon and Ty met at a strangely-named entreprenuer meetup
- Grayscale’s 30-second elevator pitch
- Accidentally naming Ty’s company after a disease
- Coming up with the initial idea
- Getting to $60K ARR with an MVP
- Finding a co-founder
- Burned by too much funding too early in a recent business
- Outbound sales and partnerships
- How to get your domain blacklisted (and then fix it)
- The hardest part about running a business
- Taking the team out for drinks
- Digital detox
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