Ep 167: Sustainable Growth: Escaping the Founder Trap

Scaling an e-commerce brand on gut instinct alone eventually breaks your supply chain. Garrett Peters of Duncan and Stone and fractional CEO Tony Franco unpack the messy process of graduating from manual spreadsheets to reliable data models. Founders often hold onto operational control far longer than they should. Garrett shares the friction of handing off forecasting to external partners while managing overseas lead times. Tony explains the mechanics of turning fragmented data into clear pur...