The startup that launched the horse race of online mattress companies

JT Marino, Tuft and Needle, eCommerce, Mixergy Fan, Physical Product

Today’s guest is a Mixergy listener and I’m excited to have him on to talk about his business.

JT Marino is the founder of Tuft and Needle, an e-commerce mattress company.

If you are starting to see online ads for mattresses and on podcasts, I believe today’s guest started all that.

I invited him here to learn how he knew there was a problem with buying mattresses, how he started this business and where it is today.

JT Marino

Tuft and Needle

JT Marino is the founder of Tuft and Needle, an e-commerce mattress company.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of real entrepreneurs. My goal here has always been to create interviews for people who are building real companies, have them build up their companies, and then ideally, they come back here and talk about how they did it.

And today’s guest is a listener. And I know because I found old email from him in my inbox from not too long ago. I confirmed with him because the email address has changed, but the name is exactly the same. And I’m excited to have him on here to talk about his business because he is JT Marino. He is the founder of Tuft & Needle. If you’re starting to see online ads for mattresses, podcast ads for mattresses, mattresses everywhere online all of a sudden, it has happened over the last few years, I think this is the guy who started it all. He’s the person who said, “Hey, why...

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