He Built a $10M Company With Zero Venture Capital
Everyone celebrates the startup that raises a huge round and grows at all costs. Bryan Clayton built the opposite. He took GreenPal, the Uber for lawn care, past 10 million dollars a year with zero venture capital, and he argues that raising too much money before you have it figured out is more likely to kill you than save you.
Bryan is the CEO and cofounder of GreenPal. Before it he built a landscaping company to 8 figures and 150 employees and sold it. In this conversation with David Carr he is candid about what bootstrapping really demands, from cutting his own burn to under 4,000 dollars…
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