How Craigslist helped Eden get early traction

Joe Du Bey, Eden, B2B

Joining me is Joe Du Bey, a founder who pivoted his way to finding success. He started out doing tech support and ended up doing something completely different.

Today he runs a company called Eden. Imagine you have a big office for your company and now you need a custodian service. It’s up to you to manage the building now.

Well Eden helps with that and many other office services.

Joe Du Bey

Eden

Joe Du Bey is a founder of Eden which provides office cleaning, IT support, handymen, and more to make it easy to run your workplace.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, for an audience of real entrepreneurs who are still hungry to build businesses. And I got to tell you in the world today, people don’t want to be entrepreneurs anymore. I feel like, Joe, there was a period in time where people wanted to be entrepreneurs, and now they want to be YouTube stars or Instagram stars and it’s so much easier than creating a freaking business and you should know that.

Joe: It’s faster for sure.

Andrew: Right. More glamorous.

Joe: And the business works. Yeah.

Andrew: But business is more substantive. It will actually survive you. You can actually, if it’s done right, be sick for a while and the business will continue to grow or frankly be able to sell it and do well for yourself and your family and the business will continue to grow and...

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