I went from $1/day to billionaire in 10 years... here's how
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It seems like it was an insane decision to go to China with no money, no plan, no relationships, no language skills, slept in a bush, and literally build your own factory. It was a disaster. When I say we were naive, I feel like that is even an understatement. To be fair, success is a bad teacher. And in our business now, I'm a huge believer in firing bullets and failing fast. And then if the bullet works, it's a cannonball and we invest and we build the recipe around that. How big is the the empire today? A little over two to a billion US in in revenue. And it's public or it's not a not a public company? Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready? Let's go!
I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to Here's what's fascinating to me. So I I have like A love language when it comes to business and my love language is Self made. Dropped out of college.
Family business. Multi billion dollar company. With no outside capital. Like you hit all of the b things on my little bingo card there, which is what got me interested. I wanna start with the or the origin story. So here's the bullet points. Grew up on a dairy farm.
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