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Jim Belosic discusses his journey of bootstrapping SendCutSend to a $140 million revenue run rate in eight years.

Jim Belosic is the Co-founder and CEO of SendCutSend, a sheet metal manufacturing business he bootstrapped to a $140 million revenue run rate in eight years. We talk building a manufacturing business in the US, creative ways he financed the company early on, using speed and trust to compete with overseas competitors, lessons from restaurants, and why you can’t run a factory from a spreadsheet. Thank you to Numeral, Flex, and Amplitude for supporting this episode Numeral: The end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance https://www.numeral.com Flex: Sign-up for Flex Elite with code TURNER, get $1,000 https://form.typeform.com/to/Rx9rTjFz Amplitude: AI analytics, all you have to do is ask https://www.amplitude.com Timestamps: (0:16) Automating sheet metal manufacturing (5:59) Zero to $140 million ARR in 8 years (7:58) Acquiring a $750k laser with $0 (13:38) Automating factories is like baking cookies (15:17) Being legible to capital (17:31) Unlocking custom, low order manufacturing with software (20:00) Building more factories instead of selling the software (24:50) Run your company like a lemonade stand (28:30) Raising an angel round in 2021 as a safety net (33:21)…

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Host: Turner Novak

Guest: Jim Belosic

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Numeral, Flex, Amplitude

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Organizations: SendCutSend

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