Garland: Low personal burn rates enabled Ooni founders to bootstrap without VC
Darina Garland · Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho · Nov 7, 2022 · at 1:06:43
Darina Garland, co-founder of pizza oven brand Ooni, discusses how lifestyle modesty and lack of high-salary golden handcuffs reduced risk and helped the company bootstrap successfully.
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“We didn't have to give up city jobs to make this happen, which I think is a very important thing when you look at kind of entrepreneurs generally. We were used to, whilst we did fine, like we had a really nice life on very little money before, so it wasn't that risk really. So we were able to, you know, plow it all into the business for so long, and I think that has helped us as well, that, that modesty, I guess.”
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