The Reality of Raising Money

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The reality is it's really easy to get the SEC report because when you raise money, you have to like actually file paperwork at the SEC. The majority of people in EO, EO Boston, which is a group of people with revenues over a million dollars, like they didn't raise money. They bootstrapped something and it's like, you know, a pretty amazing lifestyle business or bigger. Making sure it's a lifestyle business is really a big part of the conversation.

Mike Salguero is the founder and CEO of ButcherBox, a revolutionary direct-to-consumer meat business that transformed eCommerce when it launched in 2015. Salguero founded the company as a side project, but quickly scaled it into a thriving business with over half-a-billion dollars in annual revenue in 2022.

Mike joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about his entrepreneurial journey, how he started and scaled ButcherBox into a direct-to-consumer juggernaut, and much more.

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