#26 How Storytelling Scaled Her Company to $1M ARR (Paige Williams, Audpop)

“Your mother is hunting you down with a shotgun, you need to get home.” Paige Williams's ability to tap into and tell the story of her upbringing in Mississippi as a queer woman was the catalyst for scaling the now successful, Audpop, a 2-sided marketplace to 250,000 members, 75,000 filmmakers, Nearly $1M ARR, where the majority of the stories being told on their platform, focus on the underserved from people of color to LGBTQ+, whose stories are often overlooked. Here’s what you’ll learn from Paige: How she monetized her creativity into a scalable tech platform. How diverse storytelling became their superpower for scale. How she mastered enterprise sales to develop a 2-sided marketplace with a strong supply and demand. Lessons from how crushing debt almost folded her company but became the biggest teacher that fueled her to navigate the company to the next level of growth. Why she's now raising VC after years of successfully bootstrapping. And so much more... Join the F*ck 4% Movement: shegetsshitdone.com/join Have feedback, a show topic you want us to cover, or just want to say hi: [email protected]