
The Founders Lounge
From 4-Hour Workweek to #1 Shopify App with Millions in Revenue - PJ Celis (CEO, Judge.me) | E54
Jul 26, 2022
59:13
Peter-Jan "PJ" Celis is the founder and CEO of Judge.me - a product reviews app for Shopify. Judge.me is the #1 app on the Shopify app store, which is impressive. But what’s even more impressive is that PJ achieved this without any external investments (many of his competitors did), with a relatively small team of ~50 people (many of his competitors have 100s), and without doing any marketing.
In this episode, we talk about:
Building a tech product without raising funding
Become the #1 app on the Shopify app store without doing any marketing
How reading The 4 Hour Workweek helped PJ to start and optimize his business
How to make the business as efficient as possible
How to build exceptional products and provide exceptional customer support
How is PJ able to pay above-average salaries while offering the cheapest solution in the market
Setting up teams around the world to run 24/7 multi-lingual support
Why should you sell unsexy things to unsexy people
Obsessive learning
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RESOURCES
PJ’s company: https://judge.me/
Books By Ricardo Semler: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Ricardo-Semler/e/B000APW260
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RECORDED: 21.7.2022
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/DkLQ9g7Args
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Marketing and postproduction: Tom Zorman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-zorman/)
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