Islands
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Isenberg: Islands drove campus growth by gifting 'sold out' designer merch
“And what we did is we created a Shopify store and on islands is website, and it would be a hundred dollars, a 150 dollars for a sweatshirt, 80 dollars for a hat, 70 dollars for a t-shirt. And it all said sold out. So we use that to give to people on college ca…”
Isenberg: Took $75k Salary and Zero for 12 Months at Islands
“When I was running islands, I paid myself a 75,000 dollar salary in San Francisco, which like goes nowhere. And in the last 12 months, I didn't even feel like I deserved a salary cause I wanted to extend the runway. So I stopped taking a salary.”
Greg Isenberg reveals his startup Islands received a Facebook acquisition offer
“I just give him an update about, you know, we had this acquisition offer from Facebook and I was so excited.”
Isenberg: Benedict Evans fell asleep during his 2018 Andreessen Horowitz pitch
“This person was Benedict Evans. Benedict Evans fell asleep. Oh no. During my pitch.”
Greg Isenberg: 70% of my founder coaching was just personal psychology
“I had a coach for a few years, and that coach, like, helped me basically sell
My last company Islands to WeWork, like just through the whole process, and I would say like,
30% of the stuff we worked on was literally business, like, tactical, professional stuf…”