Tucker Max left & his business crashed

Tucker Max, Tell Your Story Memoir Academy, Content, Educational Company, SaaS (software as a service)

Tucker Max thought his business was worth $64 million.

Then it nearly died.

This is the story of how Scribe, the ghostwriting and publishing company rose, crashed, and rose again.

Tucker Max first became famous for his best-selling “fratire” books. He shifted to entrepreneurship when he launched Scribe, a book ghostwriting and publishing company. Today he spends time on his ranch where he grows his own food, and runs Tell Your Story Memoir Academy, which helps authors document their truth.

Andrew Warner: 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. Most recently, I’ve been fascinated by bootstrap giants, companies that are basically self funded and become giants. Joining me today is an old friend, Tucker Max.

I interviewed him back when he was publishing books and he had this huge blog and email newsletter that everyone read. He got himself so famous that there was a movie made about his life and then he started taking himself really like. Down the entrepreneurial path, he created a company called Scribe, which published books for um, for wannabe authors.

I remember real authors, supposedly, who would tell me, he’s creating the McDonald’s of publishing. He’s taking publishing down this hole that it shouldn’t, and anyway. And I love that Tucker is not, is not someone who would stop based on that. I know I...

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