#13 - He Made Millions From... Blankets, Bean Bags & Candles?

This is the secret. Everyone focuses other shit. It doesn't matter. What's your conversion rate or this or like this? It's like, wait, what are you selling? And whenever I sit down I always talk about the product'cause that shit is the most exciting. That's why we're here. That's what we're selling. I'm not selling some arbitrage on Facebook or like access to an email list or some sale. It's like no no It's so fucking simple. I make the best bean bag ever. That's it. That's why we're here. Thank you for coming. I appreciate it. Yeah, I know. Thanks for having me. I got a message from my friend Zach, who's over at Founders Fund and the good thing is when I started the podcast it was just my friends. So I was like, Okay, I know I can have like these ten guests on. These are my friends. I know they have good stories. And I was like, I don't know what I'll do after that.

But the good thing was that Zach and others basically once they heard a few episodes like, Oh, you gotta have this person on the podcast. And so he sent me one of those emails. Oh, you gotta have John on the podcast. So you are the founder of I don't know the companies actually call, but the product I've seen seen for years called the Gravity Blanket. What's the actual company called? Yeah. So basically there's Gravity Blankets, Moon Pod, and then this new one called Birth Date Candle. So I guess I have, you know, my John Holdco thing. Yeah. And I'll spin up these companies and kind of do it product by product and put a team around them and then sort of walk away or I have a team running that one and then this new one, birthday candle, also a team on that one. Right. And it's all of these little things and you know, they're spinning'em up, running'em, doubling down on what's working, and then continuing to iterate and launch and double down. Awesome. So I'm excited because I've a few different business fantasies. People have sexual fantasies. They you know, they want to role play, they want to do whatever. I have these business fantasies. One of my business fantasies is to do a mega successful Kickstarter, which you've done.

So you did a Kickstarter, I think raised almost five million bucks. Is that right? Five? Oh it was close to five. Gravity was four point seven and then Moon Pod was w like one point four. Okay. So even m even higher than five total. But one of my fantasies is to do a super successful Kickstarter. The other is to create this like Like a viral product. Like basically when I saw the Snuggy. Yeah. I was like, wow, this is genius. This guy you know somebody made a comfortable blanket, essentially. I remember having several brainstorms with friends being like, What's another Snuggy? And kind of not to make a joke of it, but you kinda did another Snuggy. That was the joke. That was the joke with when w with the team that we were doing this, we would take breaks and I would walk around with my partner and we'd be like How hysterical is this gonna be if we actually make the next slide. And

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