Isenberg: Holding Companies Should Ship a New MVP Every 30 Days
Greg Isenberg · I Used AI to Build 4 $1M+/year businesses (FULL Playbook) · Jun 2, 2025 · at 25:37
Greg Isenberg details his holding company operating playbook on The Startup Ideas Podcast.
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“You wanna create an internal idea to launch pipeline, and that could be every 30 days you ship something, right? So you're holding company every single day, you're shipping an MVP sorry, not every day, every single month is shipping an MVP, you're putting it out there, you wanna create this system where You have this culture of shipping ideas to launch and building that I think is going to help, you know, make your holding company not just like a one hit wonder or two products, but ultimately you want to do this maybe for the rest of your life and have 20, 3040, 50 products.”
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