Eric Jorgenson

as they sort of transitioned out as founders, the person that they sold the company to mismanaged it.

Google it for full details.

But I was an author who got caught up in that bankruptcy as a customer.

And I really loved Scribe.

And I thought what they did was super important and super valuable.

And publishing my first book changed my life.

And I love the people I worked with.

So I just sort of showed up and started making phone calls trying to help the company get out of a tough spot.

And

What ended up happening was the first incarnation of Scribe went bankrupt.

But some people that I knew started a new company and bought the assets from the bank and really set about rebuilding this incredible business.

And to my surprise, called me and asked me to join as CEO after the transaction had been completed.

So that was great.

August, 2023, um, that I came in and I've been learning a lot since then, you know, it was my first, um, CEO leadership role.

And it's been extremely fun to kind of, uh, get to now work on a company that I was a customer of and an evangelist of.

And yeah,

yeah it's been it's been an extremely exciting like and fun adventure and it's so awesome to get to still use you know i publish my books with scribe i am an author with scribe and and the ceo and um get to really like eat our own dog food and feel what it's like from an author's point of view and come away with that with a million new ideas of how to do things you know new and better all the time what was the hair club for men i'm not only i'm not only the president i'm also a client

I didn't realize that this is actually so weird to people in traditional publishing who refuse to publish their own books because they think it's a weird...

ethical overlap.

I'm like, how would you not want to publish your own books?