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Kyle Taylor | Hustle Con 2018

Name: Kyle Taylor | Hustle Con 2018
Uploaded: 2019-07-06T21:32:23.627Z
Duration: 18 min 11 s
Description: Kyle Taylor started the Penny Hoarder by writing about mystery shopping and other side hustles to pay off $50k in debt. He grew the blog into a personal finance media company with 100+ employees, facing challenges like hiring his first employee (via Craigslist), scaling through acquisitions, and reorganizing at 80 people.

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Kyle Taylor started the Penny Hoarder by writing about mystery shopping and other side hustles to pay off $50k in debt. He grew the blog into a personal finance media company with 100+ employees, facing challenges like hiring his first employee (via Craigslist), scaling through acquisitions, and reorganizing at 80 people.

Key insights

Taylor's first dollar came from mystery shopping for gas stations and restaurants (paid $10–$30 per report), which he then wrote about on the early Penny Hoarder blog.
He was $50k in debt at 23, felt shame (hid phone from collectors, stole hotel breakfast bananas), and started a free Blogspot blog to share his debt payoff journey.
Early Penny Hoarder employees shared three traits: they were willing to teach him (since he "knew absolutely nothing"), willing to adapt quickly (one employee went from bookkeeper to HR to office mana

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