This week, Jim is joined by Kendra Kawala co-founder of Maker Wines, to discuss how she and her partners were able to create a new product category in the wine industry and grow her company to be one of the biggest in the space, through pounding-pavement grit early on as well as using savvy growth tactics while scaling.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

What is Maker Wine
Working with 15 different wineries
Calculating order economics
Business school benefits vs cons
Finding the right co-founder
How to scale
Getting conviction up front
Applying b2b tactics to d2c
Timing

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