Ryan Carson of Treehouse: from startup founder to seasoned CEO

Ryan Carson, Treehouse, Educational Company, Hiring, Mental Game, Scaling

Ryan Carson was so good at telling the world why his unconventional way of doing business was right & others were wrong.

Other companies worked 5 days a week. Treehouse worked 4. Others had managers. Treehouse had a more self-directed team. Others…well, I could go on, but you get the picture, right?

Last time he was on Mixergy he talked about how that style took his startup to $140k in monthly sales. But to do much better, he had to mature as a leader. This is how he went from a startup founder to the CEO of a professional, growing company by doing some of the things he used to fight against.

Ryan Carson

Treehouse

Ryan Carson is the founder of Treehouse, a place where you can learn how to design and develop code online.

Andrew: Hi everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. You’re about to meet one of my favorite entrepreneurs, largely because I feel like I grew up as an entrepreneur reading his stuff, seeing him do these naked blog post where he talks about how he came up with an idea for a software and how he created it and how he built it and how he sold it. And he came here a few years ago. Let me see how long ago it was, Ryan, that you were here. You were here November 2011. So we’re talking about six, almost six and a half years ago at this point, seven.

Ryan: Looks like an eternity in internet life.

Andrew: Yeah. And boy, I’ve been re-reading the transcript from that interview. You are mind blowingly good. You talked about what you sold your software company for, the one that we all watch you build. What was it called, the one where people could send large...

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