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Keren Sachs, The Luupe

Keren Sachs is the founder of The Luupe, a marketplace for brands to connect with and hire diverse photographers.

I want to find out how she came up with the idea and how she used grit to launch a marketplace with very little tech experience or outside funding.

Keren Sachs

The Luupe

Keren Sachs is the founder of The Luupe, a marketplace for brands to connect with and hire diverse photographers.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Up until recently, I was doing this all from San Francisco and then we moved to Austin, which has been a nice transition as we’re moving from Airbnb to Airbnb.

People are hearing different atmospheres and my guests are seeing different backdrops today, though. I’m outside of our current place because, uh, our kid’s teacher has. And so they can’t get a replacement teacher in. And so the kids will have been off school. The class is completely closed and we decided to bring them over to our house.

So my son has some company and Keren, they went wild. They started going into the neighbor’s yards picking up all. It’s just been,

Keren: Can only imagine.

Andrew: So like there’s so much energy there. And we finally checked in with their parents...

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