708: (Solo) What Nobody Tells You About Scaling Past $1M, $5M, and $10M
Every stage of business breaks you in a different way, and nobody warns you which thing is about to break. So it always feels like you are the only one who cannot figure it out. You are not. The game ...
21 Sep 12min
707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and Won ($100M+)
Athan Didaskalou had bet everything on a one-year-old suitcase brand called July. Then Covid wiped out travel and nearly took the business with it. What happened next turned it into a nine-figure glob...
17 Sep 52min
706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells Beach Pools and did $50K in a Month
Jay Haddad hated being a plumber. He lived for the weekends - free diving, waterfalls, surfing, the beach - and when he and his wife had their first daughter at 23, the outdoor life they'd promised ea...
16 Sep 37min
705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thing That Built Everything
I am going to tell you about the dumbest thing I have done in 12 years of building Foundr. It is not a bad hire or a failed launch. It is something far more dangerous, because I did not even realise I...
14 Sep 11min
704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand
Mariam Naficy sold her first company for over $100 million in cash - two weeks before the Nasdaq crashed in 2000. Then she did something harder. She built Minted, a crowdsourced design marketplace her...
10 Sep 49min
703: (Solo) If I Had to Start Over in 2026, Here's How I'd Make My First $1M
If I lost everything tomorrow, the team, the audience, the network, here's the exact tactical playbook I'd use to build back to $1 million from scratch. If I lost everything tomorrow, the team, the a...
7 Sep 10min
702: Mark Cuban Calls Us His BEST Shark Tank Deal Ever ($200M+)
Four childhood friends pooled $30,000 in a Chicago apartment to make wet wipes for men. Everyone told them dudes would never use them. Thirteen years later, Dude Wipes does close to $220 million in ...
3 Sep 1h 1min
701: Trieu Doubled His Brand To $200K/Month In 5 Months - Whilst Still Working Full Time
Trieu became a dentist because he liked working with his hands and helping people - he got into UCSF's dental school as the very last student accepted, number 81 in a class of 81. Then the job started...
2 Sep 28min
