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#1928 Case Study: A bedding company with a sense of humor

Today I have a guest who seems to enjoy the fact that he’s got this business that sells sheets in a market where people have no way of differentiating sheets and no interest in trying. Instead, he dec...

May 06, 2020

#1927 An uplifting conversation with a founder helping businesses sell more online

I went on Twitter a few weeks ago and asked, “Who is doing well right now?” The response I got was surprising. In today’s interview, I want to share one of the stories that I heard. Vishal Kothari is...

May 04, 2020

#1926 Drinking on corona lockdown grew Brumate’s sales

Dylan Jacob tried lots of hustles over the years, selling phone parts, cars, weed, whatever. He finally found his love with Brumate, where he makes and sells insulated containers for alcohol. Then the...

May 01, 2020

#1925 Etsy bought his marketplace for $275 million

eBay sucked for selling guitars and other musical instruments. So Yan Pritzker created an alternative marketplace, Reverb. Yan Pritzker is the co-founder of Reverb which allows customers to buy and se...

Apr 29, 2020

#1924 How to offer products your online customers really want

Joining me is someone who didn’t think of himself as an entrepreneur. He was working at a company where he saw a problem and he developed a solution. For a long time he didn’t recognize that the thin...

Apr 27, 2020

#1923 How a mom of 6 turned handmade hairbows into a $6M business

We might be going through a bad economic crisis but joining me is a founder who grew up in an economic crisis. Her family had financial issues since the day she was born. And then, to escape a financi...

Apr 24, 2020

#1922 Looking ahead: The woman who is humanizing technology with Emotional AI

I’m excited about today’s guest because I think in the future, when computers can actually understand our emotions, we’re going to be thanking today’s guest. Rana el Kaliouby is the CEO and Co-Founde...

Apr 22, 2020

#1921 How this betting site is surviving its second economic meltdown

Joining me is an entrepreneur who launched his company back in 2007. Within a year, we hit that 2008 economic meltdown and the world changed. And I asked him about it and said, you know, truthfully,...

Apr 19, 2020

#1920 This crisis turned Mercato into a billion dollar company

Nobody cared about local grocers like Bobby’s dad, the New York pork grocer. Then the coronavirus hit the world. Bobby Brannigan created Mercato to give local grocers like his dad an easy way to sell...

Apr 17, 2020

#1919 How Sprig lost over $50 million

Why is Gagan Biyani still smiling? He raised a reported $56.7 million from investors, and lost most of it. This is the story of Sprig, the startup that made and delivered food. It’s also the story of...

Apr 15, 2020

#1918 Recession Proof: How Teachable got 2,000 new customers last month

This is part of my series of interviews to understand what’s working in business during this difficult time. Ankur Nagpal is the founder of Teachable, which allows creators to launch and sell online...

Apr 13, 2020

#1917 Recession Proof: How to snap back from sudden financial loss

Today’s guest is exactly what I was looking for when I put out a call on Twitter saying, “Is there anyone who’s doing well despite what’s going on with Coronavirus?” Well, Michael Alexis is the inspir...

Apr 10, 2020

#1916 KeVita Case Study: The kombucha beverage company launched in a recession (that PepsiCo bought for $230,000,000)

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who created a beverage company and sold it to PepsiCo. I want to find out how he sold his company but I also want to tear into this story, especially considering wh...

Apr 08, 2020

#1915 Recession Proof: Traffic Secrets for a Bad Economy

I invited Russell Brunson, the founder of ClickFunnels, to talk about how his business has been impacted the current economic situation. I also want to talk to him about his latest book, Traffic Secr...

Apr 06, 2020

#1914 Recession Proof: How to create a survival plan (so you can maintain confidence)

I was feeling a little bit down about what’s going on in the world today. There’s the virus, but there’s also the economy that is taking businesses down and it’s hard to separate the two. The interes...

Apr 03, 2020