The story behind ShipMonk

Jan Bednar, ShipMonk

Jan Bednar is the founder of ShipMonk, which is revolutionizing order fulfillment services for eCommerce businesses everywhere.

I invited him here to find out how he grew it from $1M to $4M to a $10M run rate in three years.

Jan Bednar

ShipMonk

Jan Bednar is the founder of ShipMonk, which is revolutionizing order fulfillment services for eCommerce businesses everywhere.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

It’s been something that I’ve talked about for a while now, that more and more of the entrepreneurs who I’m talking to in the audience or who I’m interviewing are doing ecommerce companies, where they actually will take a credit card and ship something out. That’s new. In the early days of Mixergy, it was all software companies, people who made software as a service, then apps. Then this little thing started to happen. More and more companies were sending stuff out.

I remember one of the earlier entrepreneurs who did this, the founder of JackThreads, this is a company that was eventually bought by—who bought them? Thrillist, yeah. JackThreads, huge success story. He told me about how in the early days, he used to have pants brought to his house and other clothes brought to his...

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