Max Rhodes of Faire with Anu Hariharan on Scaling and Fundraising

Max Rhodes is the cofounder and CEO of Faire. Faire helps retailers find and buy unique wholesale merchandise for their stores. They were in the Winter 2017 batch of YC.

https://twitter.com/maxrhodesok
https://www.faire.com/

Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.

https://twitter.com/anuhariharan

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Topics

00:00 – Max’s intro

00:34 – Leaving Square and coming up with the idea for Faire

7:05 – Changes to SMBs in the past five years

9:05 – What is Faire?

11:25 – Max’s vision for Faire

14:40 – Finding product/market fit

17:40 – Switching to try before you buy

20:50 – What separates the great companies

22:00 – Scaling as a CEO

26:00 – Calming down

29:10 – Faire’s first hires

33:10 – Faire’s first executive hire

37:55 – Fundraising and fundraising advice

43:00 – Ryan McCarthy asks – Why did Max study history at Yale?

44:00 – Why does Max think Square Cash became a successful app?