30 Years in 30 Minutes

What You Don't Know About Bootstrapping a Business, from Playa Bowls Founder Abby Taylor

Michael Oved Season 1 Episode 6

What does it take to bootstrap a business, from scratch? How do you start a business without knowing anything? That's Abby Taylor's story. Learn it exclusively here. 

In this episode, Michael Oved sits down with Abby Taylor, the founder of Playa Bowls, the acai bowl franchise that has grown into 200+ stores nationwide. She tells us how she founded Playa Bowls, what she did to grow the company from its humble beginnings as an umbrella stand in New Jersey to the fruitbowl empire it is today, and the art of creating an aesthetically pleasing product. She does all that, while teaching us how to successfully bootstrap a company, with no resources.

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