FundersClub Series: How Taro Fukuyama went from sleeping in a minivan to launching AnyPerk

Taro Fukuyama, Any Perk, B2B, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Hiring, International Founders, Mental Game, Mixergy Fan

You think you have it bad? Today’s guest had to sleep in his car outside of a Taco Bell.

His idea didn’t work. He was going nowhere.

Then he got another idea, one that led him to launch a successful startup. And you won’t believe where he found his big business idea.

Taro Fukuyama is co-founder of AnyPerk which partners with companies to provide hundreds of great perks and discounts for their employees.

I invited him here to talk about how he did it, and its part of my FundersClub series. FundersClub helped connect me with Taro, so we could do this interview.

Taro Fukuyama

Any Perk

Taro Fukuyama is co-founder and CEO of AnyPerk which partners with companies to provide hundreds of great perks and discounts for their employees.

Andrew: Hey there, Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. You think you have it bad? Do you?

Well, today’s guest is a Mixergy fan who’d been listening for years, and at one point, he had to sleep in a car outside of Taco Bell. His idea didn’t work. He was going nowhere. Things just were not working out for him. Then he came up with another idea, one that led him to launch a successful startup. The startup that I invited him here to talk about, because I was so eager to hear how he built it up. And you won’t believe where he came up with his idea. Taro Fukuyama is the co-founder of AnyPerk, which partners with companies to provide hundreds of great perks and discounts to their employees.

Everybody else talks about, “How do you get more employees?” Taro’s company talks about, “How do you keep them, and keep them happy?” I invited him here to...

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