Team Growth Journey

A story about how Jack Carr evolved from running everything by himself to building a team.

"It was just me until this last fall, and then I got a chief of staff with no staff. Starting in February, we started adding to the team. This is my first year putting a team together.

I was writing this last book, thought it would be finished December 1st, then January 1st, then February 1st. It ended up being the longest book to date - about 150,000 words, which added months to the writing process. I had started hiring people to help, but I didn't really get to interact with them until about two weeks ago when I finally sent my final edits in.

Before this, it was just me and my wife. She was doing all the fulfillment - boxes all over our bedroom, all over the living room, just chaos. I realized early on that I needed help, but you're not yet at a place financially where it makes sense to do that. It was essentially like a startup in the garage.

As of yesterday, we're at six people, with the latest hire handling the Hollywood side of the house. There's multiple projects in Hollywood now, and I was doing all the calls, all the writing, all the creative, everything."