668: (Solo) The One Marketing Concept Behind the Fastest Growing DTC Brands Right Now
Most founders think their product is different. But if your marketing sounds like everyone else's — better ingredients, better results, better formula — your customer hears nothing. Because when every...
1 Kesä 9min
667: He Built a $300M Men's Grooming Brand in JUST Three Years | MANSCAPED
Paul Tran started Manscaped with $50,000, a bloody problem nobody was talking about, and a category that didn't exist. The company hit $300 million in revenue in just 36 months, eventually turned down...
28 Touko 48min
666: Jess & Victor Started A Jewellery Brand With $2,000 — Now It Brings In $40K A Month
Victor Chan bought a $2,000 engraving machine off Amazon to make his girlfriend Jess a necklace — a hand-engraved star map of the exact moment they met. She thought it was the most thoughtful gift she...
27 Touko 35min
665: (Solo) Why Waiting Until You Feel Ready Is the Biggest Mistake You Can Make
I still remember the day I launched Foundr. After all that work, all that effort — I made $5.50. And when I told someone close to me, they laughed. I was embarrassed, jaded, and genuinely questioning ...
25 Touko 7min
664: He Changed How the World Builds Startups. Now He's Warning You About What Comes Next | Eric Ries
Eric Ries wrote the book that changed how the entire world builds startups. Now he's back with a more urgent argument: the way we're taught to build companies is quietly turning them against everythin...
21 Touko 56min
663: (Solo) More SKUs, More Problems — The Case for Going Deeper, Not Wider
When I started getting serious about e-commerce, I genuinely believed the more products you had, the more successful you'd be. More SKUs meant scaling. I was completely wrong. Here's the problem: m...
18 Touko 13min
662: I Bet Everything On Sugar Free Candy — Now It Brings In $100 Million A Year
Daniel Kitay put everything he had—his savings, his mortgage, and two months before his first child was born—on a container ship full of sugar-free gummy lollies from Switzerland. When a $250,000 sh...
14 Touko 54min
661: Donna’s Corporate Career Ended Overnight — So She Built A $51K Brand In 2 Months
A 20-year career in high-level finance ended in a single day when Donna Gilbertson was made redundant with one day's notice. No plan B, two kids at home, and a household now running on one income — sh...
13 Touko 48min
