Running a family-first startup

Steve Chou, The Family First Entrepreneur

Joining me is a friend whose businesses I have grown to appreciate so much more over the years. He’s recently written about the experience of building a profitable businesses while prioritizing family.

The book is The Family First Entrepreneur. I’ll ask him about that and his businesses in this interview.

Steve Chou is an entrepreneur and author of The Family First Entrepreneur.

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 a friend whose business I have grown to appreciate so much more over the years because When I started doing interviews, I would interview people who are, who are funded, who are building software companies, who are growing.

And I think that now more and more that type of entrepreneur is raising a ton of money. It’s more of an on, it’s less entrepreneurial and more enterprisey and less exciting and less like the kind of thing you want to do. But Steve too. He and his wife started a company called bumblebee linens. Basically they were getting handkerchiefs and selling them online.

And they started the business with, if I remember from your book, it was what? 650 bucks,

Steve: 630 bucks.

Andrew: 630 bucks and built it up to, you say in your book, seven figures in...

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