He Built His Business Slowly And It Paid Off | The Wine Guild

What if building slowly is the reason your business survives?

Jean-Baptiste didn't take a straight path to entrepreneurship. He studied wine biology in Bordeaux, worked for a skateboard company, moved to Hong Kong, worked in different industries and started his first business.

One conversation changed everything: a winemaker simply told him to import wine and sell it in Hong Kong. So he did and it all started from there.

In this episode, we talk about:

Getting your first customers
Opening the first shop
Expanding to new locations
Making decisions without knowing whether they're the right ones

Timestamps:

(00:00) Teaser and Podcast Intro

(00:32) Welcome And Guest Intro

(02:08) Wine Studies And Early Direction

(04:38) Skateboards To Business Development

(06:58) Moving To Hong Kong

(09:19) Starting The Wine Guild

(13:03) First Clients And Restaurant Hustle

(15:06) Pop Ups To Opening A Shop

(18:22) Second Store And Retail Costs

(21:20) Closing a Chop To Focus

(22:00) Regrets and Decisions

(24:08) Expansion Lessons

(24:39) Letting Go and Hiring

(27:49) Second Shop Reality

(30:47) Branding Versus Sales

(31:38) Post COVID Hangover

(33:32) Loyalty and Retention

(35:30) Founder Workload

(38:24) Rest and Thinking Time

(40:11) Advice to Younger Self

(41:53) Founder Takeaways

(43:42) New Ventures Ahead

(44:41) Wrap Up

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