
Mike Lapchick
Chief Product Officer/Founder, P6golf
SaaS technology/product veteran with a passion for creating innovative and visionary products and companies. A relentless innovator who leads with design-first principles and is dedicated to improving the relationship between humans and the technology they rely on.
Among other pursuits, founded Shotfarm (now Syndigo) in 2010 and co-founded The Chicago Catalog Group (now Epsilon) in 1996.
Shotfarm launched in 2010 as a networked SaaS platform that transformed product content management and syndication across thousands of retailers and brands and became the foundation for an $8B industry.
Before being acquired in 2019, Shotfarm served more than 15,000 of the world’s largest brands and retailers across every category within ecommerce.
The Chicago Catalog Group was Chicago’s largest direct-mail creative and production agency before moving to ecommerce services in the early 2000s which yielded 35% YOY growth prior to being acquired by Epsilon in 2008.
Questions:
- How do I start and maintain a design-led organization?
- How do I raise capital and manage investors?
- How do I manage different aspects of my startup (sales, marketing, operations, culture, etc)?