Threadless Interview

Threadless is a darling of the web at the moment - their “T-Shirt competition” operation seems to have come from nowhere to sell 1 million tees a year. However, an interview with Jack Nickell, cofounder, in one of our new favorite blogs, Midwestern Goodness, reveals that a lot of hard work over a long time really contributed to their success. In the interview Jack says:

We started about 6 years ago.. As for startup Jacob and I still worked at our regular jobs and on the side worked on threadless. We started very small in a studio apartment but kept up the hard work, Once the site started taking off we quit our regular 9 to 5’s and started full time on threadless. We each put in $500, got a few tees printed up and started selling them through the site. It was pretty slow starting out, for the first couple years we didn’t take any profit - every dime that we made just went in to printing more tees.

Midwestern Goodness: The Midwest Is Now! » Jake Nickell (Threadless) Interview