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From Posters to Printful | Davis Siksnans

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  • From Posters to Printful | Davis Siksnans
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Davis Siksnans and his team started an online store that offered posters with motivational quotes, and they called it Startup Vitamins.

The success of Startup Vitamins pushed the team to want to branch out and start selling apparel, and they wanted to do it the same way they did with posters: on-demand. Unfortunately, at the time there were no services that would do print-on-demand apparel and be able to consistently supply quality products. So they created their own company called Printful.

My guest today, Davis Siksnans, is the co-founder and CEO of Printful, the print-on-demand dropshipping company that makes it easy for anyone to sell custom print products online. He co-founded Printful in 2013, to solve their own problem. In just six years, he’s grown the company from 5 to 500 employees across the USA, Latvia, and Mexico.

Now, let’s hack…

Davis Siksnans

Highlights from the interview

  • [4:40]: Davis talks about leading his tech team, and how they focused on product from the outset.
  • [8:35]: How Davis and his partners had explored more than one hundred business ideas by the time they started Printful.
  • [10:45]: When Startup Vitamins became successful, Davis wanted to expand into on-demand apparel. The only companies that would print shirts were small shops that didn’t optimize their services for e-commerce and didn’t have any automation in place.
  • [17:25]: How his position as CEO has changed and evolved with the growth of the company. With more than 500 employees, his focus has moved from day-to-day operations to strategy and leadership.

Resources and links from the interview

  • Printful
  • Startup Vitamins

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