How to beef up your business, with ButcherBox CEO Mike Salguero
Mike Salguero, founder and CEO of ButcherBox, shares his journey from a failed venture-backed startup, CustomMade, to building a bootstrapped $650 million D2C meat business. He reflects on losing his integrity under VC pressure, then applying hard-won lessons—like prioritizing grit over r
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