Ashley Tyrner-Dolce spent more than a decade building FarmboxRx without raising venture capital and exited the company while still holding most of it.
On TechCrunch’s Build Mode she tells host Isabelle Johannesen what bootstrapping looked like without a prior exit or a wealthy network behind her, from negotiating longer vendor terms and stopping her own salary to make payroll, to the investor pressure she declined when funds pushed her toward a meal-kit business instead of the customers she wanted to serve.
