Why is this founder breaking things on purpose?

Kolton Andrus, Gremlin, B2B

Sometimes entrepreneurs feel that if they take a real job they are failing their true self. I think that’s bullshit.

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who worked at Amazon and Netflix. He solved big problems for those companies. He took that experience and started a company to solve the same problems for companies that weren’t as big as Amazon and Netflix.

Kolton Andrus is the co-founder of Gremlin, an on-call Chaos Engineering software platform. We’ll talk about what that means in this interview.

Kolton Andrus

Gremlin

Kolton Andrus is the co-founder of Gremlin, an on-call Chaos Engineering software platform.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they’ve built their businesses and I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs. And the thing about real entrepreneurs is often, they feel like, “If I ever get a job, I’m not a real entrepreneur. If I ever get a job, I’ve kind of betrayed myself and I’ve shown the rest of the world that I’m not really the entrepreneur that I said I was.” And I think that that’s just absolutely BS and you can kind of see that in the interviews as they’ve come up. And if you haven’t yet, you’re going to see it today.

Joining me today is an entrepreneur, Kolton Andrus, who worked at Amazon, who worked at Netflix, who solved big problems for both those companies and then said, “Hey, you know what? Maybe other companies that aren’t Amazon, aren’t Netflix, aren’t...

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