4. Bomani Mintz | "Stay Humble, Keep Persevering" | CEO of Crave It | Ex-Customer Success & Sales Manager

Bomani is the Founder & CEO of Crave It their mission is to help spread joy to the world through food. To Crave It food is love and they plan to build a community around food and cultural awareness. 

What gets Bomani out of bed everyday is that he believes there are few things that are more satisfying than finding great food or being introduced to great food. 

For the better part of 3 years Bomani juggled being a top performer at his full time job at LinkedIn while working on Crave It as a side hustle clocking 11-13 hour days during the week. His dedication and persistence finally paid off allowing him to launch in June 2019 and go full time in July of 2019 with Crave It.

⚡️Show Notes:

02:38 → Who is Bomani Mintz
02:59 → What is Crave it?
03:34 → Why start Crave it?
06:00 → Bomani's Favorite Food Growing up
07:01 → Growing up in DC, moving to Zimbabwe, going back to DC and moving to Northern Virginia
08:16 → Bomani's Hobbies
10:12 → Job before LinkedIn
11:30 → Day to Day Job in LinkedIn
13:11 → How Bomani manages his time
15:15 → Hitting burnout
16:56 → Building the Entrepreneurship Community
17:37 → Transitioning to early days of Crave it
19:36 → Things to avoid in starting a business
20:28 → What happened after the early days of Crave it
21:25 → Advice on branding and for people who are starting a new business
23:01 → Biggest Milestone of Crave it
24:12 → Shipping the product
27:01 → The process of launching the food app
30:24 → Weekly routines and habits
32:33 → Motivation to keep going.
33:47 → What it's like to be an Entrepreneur
35:16 → Bomani's lowest moment
37:28 → Key learnings from the lowest moment of life
38:29 → How Bomani’s unplugs from the world
39:26 → The reason for leaving LinkedIn
40:25 → Surviving life in San Francisco
41:30 → Things Bomani has cut out in order to survive
42:56 → Best advice Bomani's ever received
43:51 → A day in Bomani's life
46:56 → App used for time management
47:41 → Most valuable book and podcast channels
49:41 → Valuable skills of being an Entrepreneur
53:48 → Crave it upcoming goals
56:07 → Why start a food app?
57:06 → Piece of advice to younger Bomani
1:00:45 → Last piece of advice to all the listeners