$5M from selling electronics kits at 25 y/o - Austin Eckman, Founder at inventr.io

Austin tells me about growing up in a small farm town, Pickney MI, learning to code at 12yo, dropping out of college at 19, getting kicked out by his parents, and staying on a friends’ couch and founding Inventr.io which now 4.5yrs later makes 5M+ in annual recurring revenues. Austin describes what he loves about “making” things, how he’s teaching kids and adults to code and build with his company’s products, and how as a young founder of 25 yo he thinks about success and designing his life.
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00:00 Hook
00:38 Intro to Austin
01:49 Austin's identity as a maker and going from maker to entrepreneur
07:07 Getting on his feet after dropping out of college and starting Inventor.io
09:29 Finding product-market fit
12:36 Current state of the business
17:20 What's stretched Austin the most as a leader
19:34 How Austin designs his life
22:29 Austin's current definition of success