The company went under after raising $1.9 million in venture capital from Google, Uber and others. It's now spun out into a custom jewelry site where they actually do all the work. "It really helped teach me about packaging, but also about how VCs are pattern recognizers," he says.
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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