How Jesse Genet launched a packaging company that got the attention of YC

Jesse Genet, Lumi, B2B, Bootstrapping, eCommerce, Non-Tech, Scaling, Women Founders

Why did Y Combinator, the backers of Airbnb and Reddit and Dropbox and Stripe, invest in a packaging company? That’s what I want to find out in today’s interview.

Joining me today is Jesse Genet, the founder of Lumi. Lumi streamlines the supply chain by finding the best packaging options for your business. That sounds a little bit boring, but I promise if you saw what this stuff looked like, you’d get why it’s exciting.

We’re going to talk about how this business became something so big that we want to learn from them.

Jesse Genet

Lumi

Jesse Genet is the founder of Lumi which streamlines the supply chain by finding the best packaging options for your business.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name Andrew Warner. I interview tech companies about how they built their massively successful company. So what am I doing talking to a company that makes packaging?

Frankly, forget about me. What about this thing that I discovered where Y Combinator, the backers of Airbnb and Reddit and Dropbox and Stripe, they invested in a packaging company? Why? And how big did it get? And what are we missing here? That’s what I want to find out in today’s interview and also how did she build up this business? How did this business become something so big that we want to learn from them?

Joining me today is Jesse Genet, the founder of Lumi. Lumi streamlines the supply chain by finding the best packaging options for your business. I promise that sounds a little bit boring, but if you saw the visual of what this stuff looked like, you’d get why it’s exciting. We’re going to talk about why it’s an exciting...

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