Hustle: The Scoutzie Story (feat. Kirill Zubovsky)

Kirill Zubovsky started scoutzie.com a few years ago as a destination for mobile designers to showcase their work and as a curated marketplace for design. Over the years Scoutzie changed their model, pivoted, and experimented with several unique business models. Anthony Armendariz’s relationship with Scoutzie helped grow his business to the point of being able to create a business which would become Funsize. As of 2015, the Scoutzie team decided to shut the product down. We discuss with Kirill about his experiences, and what’s next. Show Notes 00:00 Introductions 02:47 Scoutzie in the beginning 13:00 Going through Y Combinator & proving the model 16:29 Difficulties arise 18:09 Take enough money early-on, once you run out of money, no one wants to give you more 22:07 Pivot roll-out: automated project management 25:05 Investors & users reaction to announcing shut-down 26:50 Attempts at resuscitation 30:47 In retrospect 34:44 How it feels now and what's next? Links Kirill on Twitter @kirillzubovsky Scoutzie.com Y Combinator "The Only Thing That Matters" article Kirill mentions by Marc Andreessen @pmarca Kirill's Recommended Reading: Zero to One by Peter Thiel The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Visit the Funsize website Subscribe to The Funsize Digest Check out Funsize on Instagram