Goetz: House of Wise fulfilled early orders via neighborhood moms in garage
Amanda Goetz · The NSFW Framework & the Magic of Community-Product Fit with Amanda Goetz | Where It Happens · Nov 18, 2021 · at 24:16
Amanda Goetz, founder of House of Wise, discusses bootstrapping operations while homeschooling three children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“I found two twenty-four-year-old girls to basically live with me for a year. And it was a small village, because, like, they were in the house all the time. I would have four moms from the neighborhood in my garage, packing up House of Wise, shipping it out.”
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