Lapchick: Shotfarm was founded to fund philanthropic checks after previous exit
Mike Lapchick · 1042 "We're selling the company right now" for $10m+ · Jun 1, 2018 · at 5:31
Shotfarm founder Mike Lapchick explains his personal motivation for starting the company after previously selling Chicago Catalog Group.
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“The real deal is that I had a number of checks written out to various charities and personal interests. But they were, they're all checks out to they were giving. It was philanthropic. And I started this company so that I could sign those checks, and I made enough money for me to retire but I didn't make enough off the sale of the last company to retire and actually make a difference in, in the world, and so that's why I went back to the blackjack table and gave it another try.”
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