$0 to $4M: Inside the Bootstrapped Rise of Whippy with David Daneshgar (Just Go Grind, Episode #356)

Episode 356: Justin Gordon interviews David Daneshgar, Co-Founder and CEO of Whippy, about how he went from pro poker player winning the World Series of Poker to startup founder doing more than $4M/year in revenue.

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Show Notes:

00:00 What’s coming in the episode…

1:21 Introduction

2:15 The present state of Whippy

3:18 David’s background

6:26 From poker to business school

8:34 Early days of BloomNation

11:45 What makes David a good salesman?

13:12 Events as a growth strategy

15:49 Growing BloomNation

18:06 Starting Whippy

25:21 The start of Whippy’s revenue

27:35 Product development at Whippy

33:14 The first million in revenue

34:54 Where is Whippy going

41:37 David on hiring

43:44 The distributed team at Whippy

46:39 Next big challenges

50:05 David as a founder

54:03 Keeping Whippy on top of the AI world

57:09 Who is Whippy for?

58:42 How to contact David

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