Teach himself to castrate pigs by watching YouTube videos? Hey, why not?
What seems like an insurmountable obstacle to an average person seems like “Tuesday” to him. He has an abiding, almost irrational optimism that he can figure things out. But Baggott takes a hands-on approach to pretty much everything he does. Most tech millionaires wouldn’t even deign to dirty their shoes in a pig sty. How does a tech mogul master something like that? And I’m like, ‘Wait, wait.’” As his vet’s father looked on that day, Baggott snagged a three-day-old piglet, placed it in his lap, and pulled its legs up toward its head. The pig was screaming and stressed, the mother was upset, and babies were running everywhere. “The first time I did it was after our vet’s dad, who had been castrating pigs for 50 years, had done one,” he says.
It’s only when the conversation turns to the specifics of Tyner Pond Farm, the Greenfield-based farm he founded in 2010, that the topic of minor, but deeply unpleasant, animal surgery arises. Chris Baggott-bespectacled, a bit bookish, and bearing none of the sartorial qualities one would associate with a multimillionaire or a farmer (he’s both)-makes this pronouncement at his downtown office about an hour and a half into a conversation that has, until now, focused on his history as a tech entrepreneur: his cofounding (and subsequent sale) of the digital-marketing juggernaut ExactTarget, and his fast-accelerating food delivery startup, ClusterTruck.
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