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...