Don MacKinnon
Don MacKinnon is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded HEAR Music (acquired by Starbucks); helped build the nonprofit Product (RED) with Bono; was co-founder/ CEO of Milq, a social network that connects people based on cultural passions; and now leads Hark, a podcast discovery tool.
You can bootstrap your business to scale, but you’ll have to make your own luck. Nobody knows this better than Mailchimp’s Ben Chestnut. He used a DIY ethos to grow a $600M company without ever raising a dollar of outside funding. The Mailchimp story is the exception to Reid’s rule (Generally: Raise more money than you think you need!). The episode explores a range of options for those who don’t fit the VC-funding mold for any set of reasons. Cameo appearances: LeVar Burton (Star Trek, Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton Reads), Don MacKinnon (Milq), Karen Cahn (iFundWomen).