This first-time founder bootstrapped her way to a $47.5M exit

Published on September 24, 2026
Ashley Tyrner-Dolce spent more than a decade building FarmboxRx without taking a single dollar of venture capital and ultimately exited the company while still owning the majority of it. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Ashley to talk about what bootstrapping actually looks like when you don’t have money […]
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