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Brent Underwood had a business idea: buy an abandoned town and turn it into a tourist destination. It didn’t work. Mostly because he tried running it remotely. Then he moved in. He started look...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/he-bought-a-ghost-town/

Ryan Deiss’s business was too chaotic to grow beyond a few team members. So he tried creating SOP’s, you know those how-to docs that every business is told to create, but few people end up us...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/from-chaos-to-200m-ryan-deisss-method/

He built Art.com through the early days of the internet, despite the dotcom bust, and through heavy competition….After all that work, the company sold to a much bigger company….And that’s w...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/art-coms-a-rocky-road-to-success/

Allbirds were the sustainable shoes known to be worn by Marissa Mayer, Jennifer Garner, and every dude I knew when I lived in San Francisco. How did the company get so big and where is it now? I ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/what-happened-to-allbirds/

This founder found a niche that Airbnb didn’t reach and rode it to $6 million in revenue. Steve Satoru Naito’s Anyplace, accommodations come with big monitors, high-speed internet, an office ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/succeeding-where-airbnb-falls-short/

My vision for this interview was to hear Noah Kagan’s process for launching companies, like the $80+ million / year AppSumo – the process he wrote about in his book, Million Dollar Weekend. W...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/noah-kagan-shut-up-and-take-my-100/

Hiring has been a huge issue for me. And in a past interview with Cameron Herold, I brought it up because he’s the founder of the COO Alliance, the world’s leading network for the second in c...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/coo-with-cameron-herold-2/

A topic we don’t talk about on Mixergy is how to actually manage a company. I remember when I was in NYU as an undergrad I loved all my business classes, but management just didn’t feel like ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/coo-with-cameron-herold/

About a year ago I realized that no matter how much effort we’ve put into my email list, I could never double the response rate. We kept growing it, but people were not using email much. So I s...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/manychat-with-mikael-yang/

I’ll be honest with you. I felt guilt about an interview that I did years ago with today’s guest. This was back in, let me see here, 2013. I interviewed Sam Ovens about how he built up this c...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/consulting-with-sam-ovens/

How does a former lawyer build a multi-million dollar company that teaches social skills. Jordan Harbinger is the co-founder of The Art of Charm, a company that teaches confidence and emotional i...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/jordan-harbinger-the-art-of-charm-interview/

On August 4, 2008, I posted a video up on Mixergy where I looked up into the web cam on my computer and I said “I failed.” And I said that I was going to shut down my invitation business and ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/the-1000-interview-celebration/

A few weeks ago, Andrew was interviewed about his inner doubt by Samantha Alford of WomeninBusinesspodcast.com. I (Arie Saint) thought it was too good not to share with our audience, so I’m pub...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/samantha-alford-andrew-warner-interview/

Update: based on the comments we’re getting, Jermaine sent this PDF about Automation. How does a high school senior from the inner city turn $70 into a multimillion dollar instruction web site?...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/jermaine-griggs-hearandplay-interview/

How does a wristband help a founder build a $169 million company? Ryan Allis is the founder of iContact, a provider of email marketing tools for small businesses. And a company that was recently ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/ryan-allis-icontact-interview/

Many founders I interviewed on Mixergy told me about how their companies virtually disappeared after they sold them. But 4 years after selling Reddit to Conde Nast, Steve Huffman is so proud of h...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/steve-huffman-reddit-interview/

The founders of Airbnb are guys who couldn’t make rent a few years ago, but they kept turning desperation into creative solutions. In October 2007, eager to make extra money, they noticed that ...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/airbnb-chesky-gebbia/

You listen to my programs because I don’t do the cute “let’s get to know the author” interviews that others are known for. I hunt down information that you can use because I’m passionat...

https://mixergy.com/interviews/linchpin-lizard-seth-godin/