How They Do It: Interview with Molly Hutt
A serial entrepreneur and Tribble maker extraordinaire opens up about her businesses, and her process
The term “remote worker” encompasses a lot of people doing many different things. We’re employees, freelancers, entrepreneurs, or a combination of all three. In today’s post, we’re going behind the scenes with Molly Hutt, owner of Molly Bee Studio and the Tribble Orphanarium to see remote work in action.
MOLLY, YOU’RE A SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES YOU’VE RUN, BOTH NOW AND IN THE PAST?
It all started when I was a kid. I was pumping out craft items faster than my parents could find places to display them, so I started selling hand-stamped stationery door to door in my neighborhood. I was also a very serious purveyor of fine lemonade (none of that powdered nonsense).
I started my first real business in high school, dyeing yarn and selling it on Etsy. My shop was, embarrassingly, called Nerdclub2000, after the name of my Mathletes team. You can still see all my sales here — but be warned, it’s as dorky as it sounds. Things really blew up when I was mentioned on a knitting podcast with 60,000 listeners, but then I went off to college and discovered socializing, so that ended.
