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Springfree Trampoline: Keith Alexander & Steve Holmes

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I decided to invest in some fundamental research and I wanted to ask myself one question. Did any retailer in America? believe that trampolines were dangerous. So dangerous that they wouldn't sell them. The answer was yes, and that was Costco.

The CEO of Costco was a man named Jim Senegal, and Jim said I will not sell trampolines. Well. And um so I made it my mission to try and sell Costco trampoline. Rom and PR, it's how I built this.

show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Guy Rise and today's show How a shy New Zealand professor with a crazy invention and a Canadian businessman who believed in its potential? Teamed up to create Spring Free. They call the world's safest backyard trampoline.

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