Jon laster comedian bio

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs who built a successful companies for an audience of entrepreneurs who are building successful companies. And I’m one of the early entrepreneurs that I interviewed on here, was the founder of 99 designs.

And I kind of knew Matt offline too. And I said, Matt, do you know that after I interviewed you, I got a ton of hate. He goes, yeah. I said, doesn’t it bother you? He said, look, there are a lot of people who don’t like this idea that we’re opening up designed to the crowd that any, that if a, an entrepreneur like you, Andrew wants to get a design set up.

You can list yourself on 99 designs and hundreds of designers will submit work. And you only pay for the one that you like. There are people who are upset that the. Designers, aren’t getting paid. I said, I get it. But aren’t you upset that they’re upset in public that in the comments, on my interview, he goes, nah, hold that talk is useless.

Let them complain all they want. And if anything, actually, when I thought about it actually helped them because all those, all the talk about 99 designs help grow his business. He said the people, I really respected the ones who were coming up with alternatives like Andrew Hyde, who complained and then also went on and created his own design plan.

And I thought about that for years, I think protesting often is wasted time. The only thing that works is to actually come up with something better and maybe it’s unfair, maybe it’s wrong, but it works. And so I’m really excited that today’s guest John Laster, somebody who had been out there protesting.

And I wonder how he feels about my characterization of the effectiveness of protesting, but he said, you know, Why are we protesting? Why aren’t we just shouting black lives matter? Why