How to Stop Fighting Operations Battles and Find Your Flow

About this episode

The episode discusses how to effectively manage operations and scale a business without forcing growth.

Growth is exciting, until your operations start pushing back. Many founders try to solve this by working harder, producing more, or expanding faster. But the brands that actually scale learn a different lesson: at some point, you have to stop forcing it and start building systems that work with your business, not against it. In this Nombase podcast, Dirty Gut founder Daniel Berlin sits down with Jesse Barruch, co-founder of Whims, to get some advice on how to navigate that shift without breaking your business. Find out: How to know when you're forcing growth instead of building real scale How to schedule smaller production runs early to save you from costly mistakes later How to approach co-manufacturer selection and avoid the wrong partners What to track when you have little to no data and how to build useful systems over time How to think about inventory, forecasting, and demand planning in the early stages The operational problems that only reveal themselves as you grow How to decide what to handle yourself and what to outsource as a founder The tradeoffs between control, cost, and efficiency in your operations How to structure your time around high impact work that actually…

People in this episode

Guests: Daniel Berlin, Jesse Barruch

Topics covered

• operations management
• business growth
• scaling strategies
• production planning
• co-manufacturing
• inventory management
• founder decision-making

Keywords

• operations battles
• business systems
• production runs
• co-manufacturer selection
• inventory forecasting
• demand planning
• outsourcing
• control vs cost
• high impact work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dirty Gut, Whims

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