Lessons from Bootstrapping a Business

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today Morning Brew is a 9-figure business with 200 employees. Six years ago it was a 0-figure business with 0 employees. In this episode, I share 8 of my greatest lessons as a bootstrapped entrepreneur. Check out the full transcript of this episode below, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone?
0:01.0	This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman
0:04.2	of Morning Brew.
0:05.7	Welcome back to Founder's Journal,
0:07.4	my personal audio diary, where I give you the business
0:11.2	builder, the tools you need to think better
0:13.6	in order to build better, whether that's
0:15.7	building a business, a team, or a new product.
0:19.3	Today, I am talking about invaluable lessons
0:23.0	that I have learned bootstrapping a business to nine
0:26.0	figures.
0:26.9	Let's hop into it.
0:31.9	Today, Morning Brew is a nine-figure business
0:35.2	with 200 employees.
0:37.0	Six years ago, it was a zero-figure business
0:40.0	with zero employees.
0:41.9	While my co-founder and I continue to learn so much
0:45.4	at our scale today, some of the greatest learnings
0:48.8	as entrepreneurs and professionals came in years 1 and 2,
0:52.8	where we had to will this business into existence,
0:55.8	with very little outside capital.
0:59.3	While we continue to learn so much at our scale today,
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