Fortune Favors the Brave: How Lisa Jones is Building a $50M Exit with Kindness, Grit & Systems

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Technology

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Want a quick estimate of how much your business is worth? With our free valuation calculator, answer a few questions about your business and you’ll get an immediate estimate of the value of your business. You might be surprised by how much you can get for it: https://flippa.com/exit -- In this episode of The Exit: Lisa Jones, founder and CEO of Shecom, shares her raw and powerful journey from frustrated corporate employee to seasoned entrepreneur with three exits—and a $50 million goal in sight. After being fired just shy of her probation period, Lisa launched her first business and never looked back. She reveals the hard lessons from early ventures, emphasizing the need for systemization, profitability, and eliminating key-person risk. Now building her “golden ticket” company, Shecom, Lisa leads with vulnerability, kindness, and mission-driven culture, rallying her all-female team around a shared vision. She stresses the power of community, first-party data, and recurring revenue in scaling a sustainable DTC brand. With painful missteps—like nearly going broke on a Bali holiday—behind her, Lisa urges founders, especially women, to get financially literate and think bigger, sooner. Her motto? “Fortune favors the brave.” And she’s boldly proving it. -- Lisa Jones is a passionate E-commerce expert and builder of 3 x multi-million dollar e-commerce brands. Lisa is most famous for co-founding Ecoriginals, the world's greenest nappy and wipes brand, which she sold to a private equity investor in 2020, Lisa is now busy building SHE-com, a global empire for women with e-commerce brands with a community of over 40,000 with a team of 45. Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-jones-shecom/ Website: https://shecom.co/ -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Before we get into the exit today, I want to talk about the certified M&A advisors that are on Flippa.
0:06.1	If you are an operator right now running a business and you're thinking about exiting,
0:10.8	you are going to want to get a free online business valuation on the exit landing page.
0:16.7	Without a doubt, it is the smartest thing you can do to start a process and get yourself organized.
0:23.0	So you're going to go to the URL, flippa.com, slash exit, to check out more, and let's jump into
0:28.1	the interview.
0:29.2	Below and welcome to the exit presented by Flipup, the number one platform to buy and sell online
0:34.2	businesses.
0:35.2	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines
0:39.4	expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool, deal room,
0:43.9	off market offering, market insights, an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine. Now for the exit.
0:50.9	The exit is a 30-minute podcast featuring awesome entrepreneurs who have been there and they
0:54.8	have done it. The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes.
1:00.3	You learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world
1:05.1	occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. On this episode of the exit, I sit down with
1:10.3	Lisa Jones. She's a fantastic serial entrepreneurit, I sit down with Lisa Jones.
1:11.4	She's a fantastic serial entrepreneur,
1:13.6	and she is the founder and CEO of SheCom.
1:16.3	Now, this episode is a wide-ranging conversation
1:19.0	about how she started,
1:21.6	how she got to where she is today,
1:23.8	and ultimately, a lot of the mistakes that she's made
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