A software founder’s story of addiction and recovery

Dan Uyemura, PushPress, B2B, Mental Game, SaaS (software as a service)

Joining me is an entrepreneur who worked for several companies over the years and finally found his own hit software company which he launched.

I want to talk to him about how he found it. I want to talk to him a little bit about addiction. I want to talk to him about how he’s building his software and the interesting way he went about launching it.

The guy who we’re going to get to know is Dan Uyemura. He is the founder of PushPress, a gym management software.

Dan Uyemura

PushPress

Dan Uyemura is the founder of PushPress, a gym management software.

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. Joining me is an entrepreneur who’s worked for several companies over the years and has found his own hit software company which he launched. I want to talk to him about how he found it. I want to talk to him a little bit about addiction. I want to talk to him about how he’s building it up and also kind of comparing him to one of his mentors who was just killing it.

The guy who we’re going to get to know is Dan Uyemura. He is the founder of PushPress. You know when you go to some gyms their software is just kind of weird. It looks like the doctor’s software that you used to get, and it just feels like out of step in a world where everything is so mobile and so clean and so driven by user experience. Well, Dan and his co-founder said, “You know, we could fix this.” And the...

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