From high school dropout to serial entrepreneur, with BenchMade Modern founder Edgar Blazona

<p>From building his own furniture as a teenager because his first apartment had none, to founding one of the most popular sofa brands in the world, Edgar Blazona is no stranger to building a business successfully — on his own terms. And the lessons he’s taken from that journey can be applied to any business, in any industry. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Edgar is a modernist American furniture designer and founder of DTC sofa brand BenchMade Modern, which he sold to furniture powerhouse American Leather. He’s a high school dropout, turned graffiti artist, turned serial entrepreneur.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to the full conversation for more on Edgar’s background, the business lessons he’s learned from his unconventional experiences, and how he’s ensured success in the long-term, not just the short-term. </span></p> <p><strong>Here’s a Glimpse of What You’ll Learn: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">More of Edgar’s backstory, including his struggles in school, what happened after he dropped out of high school, and how his first apartment at age 16 inspired his future company</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Edgar scaled his business from selling solo pieces of furniture outside a bar over the weekends, to a much larger enterprise</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Edgar’s “furniture college” was, and how that experience changed the course of his life</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Edgar’s experience with the “fake it ‘til you make it” philosophy </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What it’s meant to Edgar to have his “eye on the prize” and how that’s helped guide his business development</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The diff