Foundr - How it all started

Hey , hope you’ve been having a good weekend so far.

I wanted to share a personal story with you of how I started Foundr.

I was working an IT job for a pretty big international firm.

I was crawling under tables and connecting cables for people who couldn’t give a damn about me, as long as their internet was back on.

Honestly speaking, it was also the best job I had (prior to going all in on Foundr), because I realized something while crawling around on the floor and spraying compressed air into computers...

I realized I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing something that I wasn’t passionate about.

I decided instead to do something for myself – and learn how to start my own company. I sat in on a masterclass presentation that was selling a magazine creation tool called Magcast.

I was fascinated by this idea.

I thought to myself, “This was a tool that could make ANYONE into a magazine publisher.”

But then came the fear of not knowing enough to start.

Will I be okay doing my own thing?

What if I fail?

At that point in time, I didn’t know much about marketing or even how to publish online.

But there was a part of me that decided to stop wasting time worrying about the doubts and fears, and just go for it.

I didn’t want to spend the next year wondering “what if.”

I had to try this crazy idea now.

So, I reached for my wallet, and started Foundr Magazine with $3,000 on my credit card – buying the first SaaS tool for our business (the magazine publication tool I mentioned earlier).

And guess what? We even made a sale on the first day of our business.

For the first year of Foundr’s history, I spent my nights to fill any knowledge gaps (and trust me, there were plenty of things I didn’t know) on how to run a successful magazine serving the startup industry.

Whether it was reading books or speaking with like-minded people who'd been where I was at that time, I was just soaking up as much information as I could.

Then, came the glorious day where I was able to work full-time with Foundr.

Several years later, Foundr has become a multi-million dollar business, servicing millions of people with content that takes them through each step of their entrepreneurial journey.

The point I’m trying to make, Nathan, is that you don’t need to have all the answers right away in order to start your business.

I started Foundr without any prior experience or knowledge of how to publish a magazine. I am only able to be where I'm at right now because I dedicated myself to gaining as much knowledge as I can — and taking action.

And trust me when I say this, Nathan, I am in no way any more special than you.

I come from a humble family where my mom was a nurse and my dad, a teacher. I wasn't a superstar in school, nor was I born into a privileged life.

And that's why I know that if someone like me can do this, so can you.

We want to help you build your business, Nathan, by providing you with the resources to gain all the knowledge you need along the way.

That’s why we created the free digital magazine subscription.

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Yours in success,

Nathan Chan

CEO, Founder of Foundr