335: From 0 to $65m: With Farmgirl Flowers' Christina Stembel

335: From 0 to $65m: With Farmgirl Flowers' Christina Stembel

Faced with 104 rejections, zero-funding, and the prospect of launching a new business during an economic downturn, Christina Stembel has not only grown her company Farmgirl Flowers to a $65m empire, she has also done it completely bootstrapped. Stembel’s journey from bootstrap to business mogul is nothing short of inspiring. What began as $46k savings and a 2-year window to achieve her goal, her ecommerce flower business saw 5x growth in the first 2 years. As Stembel says, “the fact that I was able to bootstrap without running out of money is the biggest accomplishment of my life” In this interview, listen in to discover how Stembel marketed and advertised her brand on a shoestring budget, the importance of word-of-mouth and how that helped her achieve her first million, and why she views FarmGirl Flowers as the workhorse among unicorns. Key Takeaways How Stembel started FarmGirl Flowers, and why she gave herself 2 years Marketing on a shoestring budget Complications she faced selling perishable products Why she views FarmGirl Flowers as a workhorse among unicorns The importance of product-quality, and why she believes that a good quality product will outsell any level of marketing The future of FarmGirl Flowers and reaching her first billion

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711: Natasha Quit Her 9-To-5 In June - Her Drink Bottle Brand Now Does $15K/Month

711: Natasha Quit Her 9-To-5 In June - Her Drink Bottle Brand Now Does $15K/Month

Natasha was on maternity leave with a newborn who cried until he was five months old, permanently thirsty, and completely fed up that the one drink bottle she owned had grown mould. She switched to dr...

30 Syys 41min

710: (Solo) I Asked 10 Billionaires The Same Question - Here's What They Said

710: (Solo) I Asked 10 Billionaires The Same Question - Here's What They Said

Over 12 years of interviewing more than 100 billionaires, I started asking every one of them the same question: if you lost everything tomorrow, the money, the brand, the team, and you had to start co...

28 Syys 15min

709: AI Agents: The Only Skill That Matters in 2026 (Masterclass)

709: AI Agents: The Only Skill That Matters in 2026 (Masterclass)

Ari Meisel spent 15 years teaching founders to do less. He's worked with over 300 assistants and once ran his business on a single hour of work a day after Crohn's disease nearly took him out. Now AI ...

24 Syys 53min

708: (Solo) What Nobody Tells You About Scaling Past $1M, $5M, and $10M

708: (Solo) What Nobody Tells You About Scaling Past $1M, $5M, and $10M

Every stage of business breaks you in a different way, and nobody warns you which thing is about to break. So it always feels like you are the only one who cannot figure it out. You are not. The game ...

21 Syys 12min

707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and Won ($100M+)

707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and Won ($100M+)

Athan Didaskalou had bet everything on a one-year-old suitcase brand called July. Then Covid wiped out travel and nearly took the business with it. What happened next turned it into a nine-figure glob...

17 Syys 52min

706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells Beach Pools and did $50K in a Month

706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells Beach Pools and did $50K in a Month

Jay Haddad hated being a plumber. He lived for the weekends - free diving, waterfalls, surfing, the beach - and when he and his wife had their first daughter at 23, the outdoor life they'd promised ea...

16 Syys 37min

705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thing That Built Everything

705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thing That Built Everything

I am going to tell you about the dumbest thing I have done in 12 years of building Foundr. It is not a bad hire or a failed launch. It is something far more dangerous, because I did not even realise I...

14 Syys 11min

704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand

704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand

Mariam Naficy sold her first company for over $100 million in cash - two weeks before the Nasdaq crashed in 2000. Then she did something harder. She built Minted, a crowdsourced design marketplace her...

10 Syys 49min

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