Behrens-Wu sold 1 to 3 items weekly before founding Shippo
Laura Behrens-Wu · EP 439: $9m Raised, GoShippo Helps Little Guy Drop Ship 1,000,000+ Packages Per Month Already with CEO Laura Behrens Wu · Oct 6, 2016 · at 3:35
Shippo co-founder and CEO Laura Behrens-Wu describes the scale of her side e-commerce business prior to starting Shippo.
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“So I was selling like one, two, three items a week. It was very small.”
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