How Mitchell Harper built a $100,000,000 company, failed, and got back up
I hope that decades from now people go back to these interviews to learn from this crop of entrepreneurs. And one I’ll be most proud is my interview with Mitchell Harper of BigCommerce.
He’s a guy who started out bootstrapping, who built an incredible company, and who came on to talk about it back in 2010. It was such a great interview and it holds up even after all this time.
Mitchell Harper is the founder of BigCommerce, an e-commerce platform whose revenue is approaching $100,000,000.
I want to find out why he left that company and about his new product, Startup Growth Blueprint, a course that teaches everything he’s learned from growing companies including where to get an idea, how to validate it, how to launch, hire people—everything.
Mitchell Harper is the founder of BigCommerce, an all-in-one e-commerce platform with the power to grow your business.
His new product is Startup Growth Blueprint, a course that teaches everything he’s learned from growing companies including where to get an idea, how to validate it, how to launch, and hire people.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It is, of course, home of the ambitious upstart.
And I kind of do these interviews for people to use today, but I also understand that in the future decades from now, people will be going back and listening to some of my interviews and studying home this crop of entrepreneurs who changed the world did it.
And one of the interviews that I’m going to be so proud for people to go back and look at is my interview with Mitchell Harper, this guy who started out bootstrapping his company, who started out hustling, who built it up. We did this incredible interview. How many years ago was it now, Mitch? Let me have a look here. This was back in 2010, to give you a sense of how far back it was. It still holds up. It’s such a phenomenal interview.
Part of the reason why it was a phenomenal interview is that I became a good interviewer by then, but a much...
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