SYNOPSIS
Distributed by Inc. Magazine, Trep Life is an original series offering audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what
it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur (“trep”). Individual episodes feature an individual entrepreneur or entrepreneur team, and are comprised of 3 short segments entitled “The Grind,” “The Hustle,” and “The Payoff.”
“THE GRIND” features footage of the daily grind – the company operations and
minutia which treps must deal with in order to actually keep their ventures running. It’s
the very un-sexy but necessary work that can include everything from hitting the gym
at 5AM to dealing with IT headaches to a conference call to India at 3AM.
“THE HUSTLE” includes everything which comprises business growth and
development. Marketing, sales presentations, lunch meetings, phone calls, pounding
the pavement, brainstorming sessions, and more. “The Hustle” answers the question
“How is the trep growing their company and moving their venture forward?”
With “THE PAYOFF,” Trep Life is taking a unique approach which allows the individual
treps to define what the payoff is for them, as opposed to defining “payoff” in purely
financial terms. In other words, for each individual trep, we ask what they get in return
for the time, effort, sacrifice, investment, risk, stress, struggle, failure and success? Is it
financial gain? Time with their family? Personal fulfillment? What’s the payoff?
The 12 episodes of Season 1 feature:
Howard Tullman of Tribeca Flashpoint Academy
Sittercity founders Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner
Matt Maloney and Mike Evans of GrubHub
Designer Lara Miller
Mark Achler of Redbox
James Miller and Samantha Ballenger of Network After Work
Nicole Bradley of the Be Legendary Project
Greg Pekarsky and Brad Robbins of Vesta Preferred Realty
Lindsay Avner of BrightPink
Mike Samson and Ross Kimbarovsky of crowdSpring
Scott Wilson of Minimal
Eboo Patel of Interfaith Youth Core
IMPACT
The mission of the Trep Life social action campaign is to create positive social change for one billion people globally. The campaign will provide resources – including mentorship, investment, education, and training – to entrepreneurs on a local, national, and international basis through our initiatives and collaborations with entrepreneurs, NGO’s, governments, foundations, networks, and social ventures.
