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Randy Larson

Founder and CEO of Shinebox, a Minneapolis brand and advertising agency known for its 275% two-year growth.

Oct 1, 2026

12:11
Yeah, so that was Thorne Creative, right?
12:13
No, that was US Web CKS, which was March 1st.
12:19
Okay.
12:20
I, at one point, had stock options, and according to my math, I was going to have about $3 million when I left that agency.
12:27
And, of course, an 85,000-person professional services firm in the dot-com bust in 1999 kind of put an end to those dreams.
12:36
Yeah.
12:38
I left there and actually worked for Bulger Print Shop, Concept to Print is what they were called, and they had a design area there.

15 MINS LATER

27:47
Where do you draw the line on what you will and won't do and what you might outsource or partner with someone else on?

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