1:00- Favorite desk object
3:40- Coming from a creative family
5:40- The option to have your own business as a kid
10:12- Going to college and studying Graphic Design
13:12- Enjoying the computer side as well as the technical side of things
15:16- The plan for after school
17:43- Transition from working at an agency to creating Ugmonk
19:44- Going the T-shirt route instead of something else
21:15- The appeal of doing all of the fulfillment yourself and the first mistake
22:00- Trying by doing — sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t
24:50- “What do you attribute to your success?”
27:20- Realizing this could be a full time gig
31:23- Jumping from working for an agency to freelancing and Ugmonk
32:29- The reason Ugmonk grew when it did
35:30- Working with family
37:12- Spending enough time on the creative stuff end not getting buried by the business side
38:32- Stressful or exhilarating?
39.54- The reason behind creating Gather — a minimal modular desk organizer
43:08- Learning to work with materials you’re not used to
45:01- Experience doing the first Kickstarter campaign
46:51- Balancing the Kickstarter campaign, fulfilling Gather orders, and running Ugmonk
48:00- The biggest hurdles of getting Gather products out to people
52:12- Plans for another Kickstarter campaign and learning from the first one
53:45- Viewpoint on growth
56:12- How do we scale? How do we keep this small and high quality?
57:15- The next year for Ugmonk
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