Noah Bragg: Automated Potion.so operations to reduce workload to two hours weekly
Noah Bragg · Startup Acquisition Stories with Noah Bragg, Founder of Potion.so · Jul 5, 2023 · at 22:33
Noah Bragg, founder of Potion.so, discusses operational preparation before selling his startup on Acquire.com.
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“Even with running the business potion, like, at the later ends of it, I was kind of just trying to automate more things and just, like, basically make it so it takes less of my time even with, like, customer support and things like that, and just being able to get, like, the amount of time that, basically, I have to spend on the business down to, like, Two hours a week or something like that.”
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