Welcome back! This week, we explore the crazy, chaotic and anxiety-inducing early days of Pip Decks. This is a raw, unfiltered look at what it's actually like to start a business - warts and all. If you've ever dreamed of starting your own but always talked yourself out of it, you need to listen to this episode.

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Charles Burdett and Jacob Welby from Pip Decks talk about the version of running a business that nobody writes books about - the one where you actually have a life.

They also chat about: a lollipop lady making $15,000 a month from a hand-drawn zine, why AI is making everyone's marketing taste identical (and how to use that to your advantage), as well as the Seth Godin quote that's secretly behind Pip Decks' success.

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Hey!

Here’s episode 2 of my new podcast Cashworm Venturetoad - hosted alongside my lifelong best friend and business partner, Jacob Welby!

In this episode we look back on our CRAZY journey with Pip Decks, including:

* The dangers of fast growth

* How we accidentally built a fragile business (and how we fixed it)

* The design-principles behind Pip Decks

* The origin story of Pip, Frodge and Blob

* Why you need to fall in love with the creative process, not the outcome

Cheers!

- Charles & Jacob

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Hey!

This used to be the Maybe Useful / Maybe Not newsletter from me, Charles Burdett.

I’ve torched that (because I fell out of the habit of writing it, and I’m only in the habit of keeping up with things I really want to do).

Which means I have teamed up with my life-long best friend and business partner, Jacob Welby - who runs Pip Decks with me.

And this is now the Cashworm Venturetoad podcast.

To be frank, this is just another two-white-dudes-podcast.

But the difference I suppose is, we are making this podcast for us, not you.

There is no central theme, there is no pre-planning, there is no sponsorship, there is no coherency.

It’s the conversations we were having anyway, we just stick a mic in one of them now.

So if you’re into it - cool, glad to have you listening.

Otherwise if not, I encourage you to unsubscribe.

Thanks for sticking with me - maybe you’ll enjoy it - maybe not!

Charles (and now Jacob!)

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cashwormventuretoad.com