Everything Jordan Boesch said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Boesch: Co-founders must experience friction to resolve root problems
“I think is really important for a bunch of co-founders is to like feel a lot of friction between each other to like get to the root of problems.”
Boesch: Founders Must Align Incentives Since VCs Need $100M Scale
“Everyone sort of feels like I have to raise money to build a company. And it's, that's not true. The difference between like, oh, I want to build a million dollar company or a ten million dollar company or a hundred million or a billion dollar company. Like th…”
Boesch: Shared Slack Channels Are Underrated for B2B Partnerships
“Building the right incentive structures, but also aligning the teams, like sharing a Slack channel, and I think that that's like a very underrated thing that Folks should do in partnerships. Like just throw up a Slack channel and like get the key people in the…”
Boesch: 7shifts now serves 1 in 10 US restaurant workers
“We're tens of millions in revenue. We're not we're not at a hundred million. But we've, yeah, we've got, you know, 50,000 customers on the platform. We're used by about one in 10 restaurant workers in the U.S. Right now.”
Boesch: 60% of new restaurant software users migrate from paper and Excel
“There's still, it's still, like, 60% of people come up from paper and excel, still.”
Boesch: 7shifts Drove Early Traffic by Owning 'Restaurant Scheduling Software' SEO
“There was no one talking about restaurant scheduling software. So like we just basically One of those keywords. We built everything around restaurant scheduling software and like everywhere. And so that drove a lot of early traffic for us.”
Boesch: 7shifts was the first labor partner for major cloud POS platforms
“We were their first labor partner. And so we sort of wrote the playbook on doing these integrations.”
Boesch: 7shifts Outcompeted Rivals by Sponsoring Partner Reps and Events
“We just invested a lot. Like we were very present at a lot of the partner events. So when they would do something with their sales reps, maybe we would sponsor it. Maybe we would go out and we would, we were just so active. Like if we look, if you look around …”
Boesch: 7shifts was down to four months of runway in 2017-2018
“I think at that time it was like, we had like four months of runway left or something.”
Boesch: Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer is an investor in 7shifts
“Danny Meyer, one of my personal idols, and he's an investor in seven shifts.”
Boesch: 7shifts v1 was a shared login to download Excel spreadsheets
“That was the first version, which is basically allowing folks to all log in with the same email and password and then download the Excel spreadsheet that my dad would upload through the app that I had built initially.”
Boesch: 7shifts was generating $35,000 annually when he went full-time
“Seven Chists is now making 35,000 dollars a year.”
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