Challenges of building a hardware AND software company simultaneously

Greg Marsh, Key.me, Mobile Apps

Today’s guest is Greg Marsh, the founder of Key.me, an app which allows people to copy their keys at robotic kiosks.

I want to talk to him about the issues he faced building a hardware and software company simultaneously. I heard there were many.

I also want to talk to him about the competition. We’ll get into revenue—all that coming up in this interview.

Greg Marsh

Key.me

Greg Marsh is the founder of Key.me, an app which allows people to copy their keys at robotic kiosks.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and I do it for an audience of ambitious entrepreneurs.

More and more, when I try to reach out to somebody who’s built a successful company, I will go into my inbox to find them. And then, as happened to me just earlier today, I find long time ago emails from them because they listened to Mixergy as they were building up their companies.

One of my favorite examples is the founder of Tuft & Needle. I just got two of those mattresses. The guy is doing $170 million in sales, I think. And I still go back and see old emails. Whenever I interact with him, I always go back to our older emails from like 10 years ago, I hit Reply on those and we continue.

Anyway, so, Greg, I’m glad that you’re smiling as you hear that because somewhere out there there’s somebody who is...

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