Phil Goodwin

Founder, FHL Creative · 1 appearance on the record.

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Phil Goodwin is an Athens, Georgia-based digital product designer who co-founded the subscription design studio Jamm Design, which was acquired by Napkin Inc. in late 2025. He operates his studio FHL Creative and previously served as Creative Director of Product at the design agency Unfold.

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Everything Phil Goodwin said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Clients Spending $160K on Agencies See Design Quality Decline Post-Handoff

“And so you'd see someone spend, you know, a 120, a 160 K right on brand and web and product, all this stuff. And then you see, you kind of watch from afar and you see the quality, like after we stopped working with them, right. Cause it was expensive, right. T…”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 3:30 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

Insight

Solo Freelancing Through an LLC is Owning a Job, Not a Business

“I came to learn that I didn't actually own a business. I owned a job that I worked that had a business front on it.”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

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Acquirer Napkin Previously Bought a Design Subscription Business at Lower Price Points

“They actually purchased a subscription business years ago design business, but at a different, a little bit different scale of price point. I think the price point of the business they had purchased before was about a, you know, 100 to a thousand dollar a mont…”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 16:04 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

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Jamm Retained Day-One Clients Across Its Two-and-a-Half-Year History

“We've literally had some clients at jam who started with us the day we started and they're still with us. To this, two and a half years later, and they've kind of scaled and used Jam at different capacities.”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 7:20 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

Disclosure

Jamm Limits Clients to One Active Task With Two-Day Turnarounds

“So the standard process, the way we go is, is two business day turnaround on a task update. So everything's in Trello, right? So you have like a backlog, you can kind of build out and clients, clients manage all their own boards. So we don't move Cards around …”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 8:08 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

Disclosure

Jamm Operates Entirely With Independent Contractors and Zero W-2 Employees

“Everyone's an independent contractor at JAMS, so there's no, like, W-II employees”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 13:30 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

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Napkin's Acquisition of Jamm Originated Through the Platform Acquire.com

“You guys brought, ultimately, the guy who, you know, initially reached out, came through acquire, and kind of connected us with napkin”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 19:39 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

Disclosure

Jamm Founders Remained as Design Managers Post-Acquisition to Build Mini Apps

“We're all staying plugged in as design managers at Jam, managing clients, just like our other design managers do. But yeah, we've all got, we've got some initiatives together, building little mini apps and little pieces of software that we're playing with.”

Phil Goodwin Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 23:55 Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why Buyers Wanted THIS Design Business	Dec 16, 2025	13m

Phil Goodwin

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