Back in 2015, Mixergy sat me down and asked me to walk through the whole messy, winding origin story of GigSalad — from working craft service on movie sets in New York, to booking acts out of my kitchen in Springfield, to building a marketplace that was never supposed to exist. Spoiler: I was a talent agent who kept getting calls from people I couldn’t help. So instead of turning them away, I built the thing they needed. This interview goes deep — the bootstrapping, the co-founder dynamic, the obsessive SEO hustle, and why I made 100 cold calls a day just so strangers would know my name. It’s all in there. Read (or listen) over at Mixergy.
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