How Mike McDerment turned Freshbooks from the basement into a 7 figure company
Co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks – Mike McDerment
Today’s guest joining us on the show is the founder of Freshbooks, which is the world’s #1 accounting software in cloud for self-employed professionals. Built-in 2003, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBooks from his parents? basement.
Since then, over 10 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing, and collect billions of dollars. Mike is also an author and wrote the book, “Breaking the Time Barrier,” which is a guide to using value-based pricing to unlock your true earning potential which has been downloaded more than 250k times.
Episode Highlights:
- How Freshbooks evolved from a little software company to a million-dollar company (pivotal moments of each phase)
- How ‘letting go’ can be a huge turning point in your life!
- The shocking truth about hiring your dream team
- Why every problem a people problem, and every solution a people solution.
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