Interview with Teespring's Chris Lamontagne on the power of pre-commerce

Episode details

Chris Lamontagne is the CEO @ Teespring, a platform that empowers anyone to create and sell their own high-quality apparel line with no costs or risk. Teespring focuses on reducing the friction between having a great idea and bringing that idea to market.

Teespring is a former Y Combinator alumni, backed with $61M+ funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures the company has shipped 35m products and $1bn in lifetime sales. Hundreds of people make their full-time living on Teespring, thousands supplement their income, and millions have purchased and love their products.
Some of the areas Chris is going to cover in this episode:

1. Why Chris decided to join Teespring and his journey in becoming a CEO for the 1st time
2. Chris' style and approach to growing a business through partnerships 
3. The benefits of adopting a profitability mindset
4. Nick Bell the former VP of Content at Snap joining the Teespring family as an advisor and key learnings from that relationship
5. The Resurgence of social commerce
6. Will we see the end of the physical retail store
7. The fundamentals for building a consumer brand today
8.  Chris' favorite customer story of how a designer in New York went to sleep and after waking up realized that they had sold over 1000 units and shortly after $800k worth of products as a first time Teespring user

Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:

• Chris' favorite book: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
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