Episode 403: TMBA403: Why Honesty is the Best Policy When Growing a Team
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/convertkit/ On today's show, Dan and Ian are going to talk to an entrepreneur whose business is absolutely on fire right now.
Nathan Barry is the founder and CEO of ConvertKit, an email marketing program for bloggers. ConvertKit currently has 28 employees, and is turning over 9 million dollars in annual recurring income.
Nathan has built a long and storied reputation of being unafraid to confront and analyze the challenges of entrepreneurship through his blog at NathanBarry.com.
On this week's episode, Nathan talks about a challenge that he is facing right now that many entrepreneurs would love to have. How do you create a company culture when your team is growing at a remarkable pace? It turns out the answer is brutal honesty.
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| 0:00.0 | This year we're working to get to a million a month in revenue. |
| 0:02.9 | And, you know, I need everyone exactly on the same page to make that happen because it's |
| 0:07.2 | really, really difficult. |
| 0:08.9 | And so if people are caught up like, someone said this that offended me, like that kind of |
| 0:13.8 | stuff is toxic. |
| 0:14.5 | And so we don't spend any time with distractions there because we put in this work up front. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey podcast, listener. |
| 0:25.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now, |
| 0:28.9 | in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:33.0 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:37.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:43.0 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:51.8 | Today on the show, we are going to talk about some scary, intimidating topics. |
| 0:58.5 | And as a clue, the words team and honesty feature heavily. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, boy. |
| 1:03.5 | Are you worried yet, boss? |
| 1:05.2 | I am honestly scared. |
| 1:08.1 | Our guest today is Nathan Berry, the founder and CEO of ConvertKit. That's an email marketing |
| 1:14.7 | tool for bloggers. It's fair to say that Nathan hasn't been afraid to confront and analyze and be |
| 1:22.5 | transparent about the challenges of entrepreneurship over at his great blog. Check it out, |
| 1:28.8 | Nathanberry.com. But the challenge he's facing at the moment, which is how to create a company culture |
| 1:33.6 | amongst a rapidly expanding team, and I will underline the word rapidly, is one that most |
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