69: Design Agency, Business of Swag, and Bootstrapping | John Howard , Founder of Slingshot

Billion Moonshots

John Howard is the founder of Slingshot. Slingshot is a swag company that leads to more sales calls, and more shout-outs on social media.

We discuss how John sold his design agency, built Slingshot, how it evolved over the years, executing Adobe's viral Twitter campaign, bootstrapping, and much more.

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OUTLINE

(0:00) How John sold his design agency

(9:00) How to hack the Dribbble algorithm

(15:15) What happened after John left the agency

(17:04) Built Slingshot

(23:28) Evolution

(26:33) Adobe's viral Twitter campaign

(35:22) Growth rate of Slingshot

(44:07) Most popular swag

(51:12) John’s sales experience

(01:08:28) Bootstrapping

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.