Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, where I’ve interviewed over a thousand entrepreneurs about how they’ve built their businesses. My goal here is to understand what they did that allowed them to grow so fast, that allowed them to have such big impact.
Today I’m talking to entrepreneur whose company I started to notice because the other entrepreneurs who I interviewed have associated themselves with his nonprofit. I remember, for example, there was an entrepreneur who I interviewed who had a journal, a journal that was going to help make your year much more productive. I looked at his Kickstarter campaign and part of the money was going to go to Pencils of Promise. I said, “Huh, I keep seeing this freaking Pencils of Promise everywhere. What is this organization? How do they get everywhere?” I just kept like that question in the back of my head for a long time.
And then one of Gary...