Building a $200 Million E-Commerce Business - Mike Beckham

Mike Beckham built Simple Modern into a $200 million/year e-commerce brand. I chat with him about how he got started, another business ventures he had (including talking his brother out of buying $1 million of Bitcoin in 2012).

Mike teaches entrepreneurship and business to students and others, so watch this entire episode if you want to start a business. Mike will show you the way!

0:00 Intro
5:17 How did Mike become an entrepreneur?
9:10 Mike's entrepreneurship lessons
18:22 Entrepreneurial parenting
22:31 How to start a business
25:48 His brother's auction website ($1 billion in sales)
32:38 Almost inventing Candy Crush
35:15 Amazon suspending his account
42:06 How Simple Modern changed over the last 4 years
43:58 Treating employees well
59:04 Who does Mike look up to?



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