693: (Solo) How I Built a Billion Dollar Network From Nothing (And How You Can Too)
I get this all the time. DMs, emails, some version of "hey Nathan, can I pick your brain?" And I get it, the intention is good. But here is...
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Foundr Magazine Podcast | Learn From Successful Founders & Proven Entrepreneurs, The Ultimate StartUp Podcast For Business
We interview hard to reach entrepreneurs. (Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John & many more). Unlike most podcast interview series Nathan Chan literally star...
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692: I Was Selling Muesli From My Car Boot - Now I Run a $35M/Year Brand
Narelle Plapp started Food for Health twenty years ago making recipes for patients who couldn't find allergy-friendly food on any shelf. She...
691: Anastasia's $850K Brand Collapsed To $42K A Month - Then She Tripled It Herself
Anastasia Chapman came up with the idea for her brand where all good bathroom ideas start - sitting on a toilet, hiding a competitor's produ...
690: (Solo) The Truth About Selling Your Business (From Someone Who Said No)
At some point, if you are building a DTC brand and getting traction, someone is going to reach out. An aggregator, a private equity firm, a...
689: I Sold ONE Product in ONE Color - Then Exited for Half a Billion
Rob Ward exited Quad Lock last year for half a billion dollars. He never took a cent of outside investment to build it, was profitable every...
688: (Solo) I Lost Years Of My Life To This One Mistake (And You're Probably Making It Right Now)
I have never said this directly on the show before, but shiny object syndrome did not cost me months. It cost me years. Entire years where t...
687: I Broke Every DTC Rule and Built a $1 Billion Brand From My Garage
Sandra Oh Lin walked away from running eBay's fashion business in 2011 to pack craft boxes in her garage. She raised just $11 million in tot...
686: Claire Built The World's #1 Dachshund Brand From Home - Now Doing $140K/Month
Claire Wolfson got her first dachshund at 20, became completely obsessed, and watched him get paralysed by the spinal condition that affects...
685: (Solo) The $500,000 Lesson I Had to Learn the Hard Way
A few years ago I lost half a million dollars in 30 days. Not in crypto, not in a speculative bet. In the business I built from my parents'...
684: She Bet Her House Deposit on Hair Gel - and Built an 8-Figure Brand
Yasmina Elmerkaoui had one shot - use the house deposit to buy a home, or bet it all on a hair gel she'd spent two years formulating. She ch...
683: (Solo) The Expense Audit That Could Save Your Brand Thousands This Year
This is not a growth hack. It is not going to go viral on a Twitter thread. But I genuinely believe it is one of the highest leverage things...
682: From $2M in Debt to a $250M Gum Company | Pur Gum
Jay Klein lost $2 million on a gum nobody wanted. He sold the remaining stock to a pig feed company for $13,000 - then used every cent of it...
681: Dr. Angela Spent $350K Building The Skincare Brand Her Daughters Needed — Now It Does $40K/Month
Dr. Angela Casey spent nearly 15 years treating skin cancer before she had her business idea. She didn't come from entrepreneurship - she ca...
680: (Solo) The Thing Nobody Tells You About Building a Business Alone
After interviewing over 700 founders, including more than 100 billionaires, I kept noticing something that never made it onto the podcast. W...
679: The $20 Jar of Salt Behind Her 9-Figure Jewelry Brand
Jennifer Fisher started with $5,000 and a dog tag she sketched on a piece of paper for her son - a son she almost never had, after chemother...
678: (Solo) The First Hire Mistake That Trips Up Almost Every Solo Founder
Most founders make their first hire reactively. They're overwhelmed, stretched across every function, and they just want someone to take the...
677: We Built a $250M Cold Plunge Brand - From a Garage | Plunge
Ryan Duey was living in an RV with his float spas closed and no backup plan when he and Michael Garrett built their first cold plunge from a...
676: Alisha Spent 16 Years In Salons - and Distilled it all Into One $7K/Month Product
Alisha dropped out of year 10 to become a hairdresser, opened her own salon at 20, and ran it for nearly a decade - applying five different...
675: (Solo) The Money Mistake That's Quietly Killing Your Business
I've wasted so much money over the years running Foundr that I don't even want to know the number. And if I'm honest, it came down to one th...
674: From $800 to $250M Selling Women's Fashion | Demi Marchese
Demi Marchese started with $800, no investors, and no fashion background—just a clothing rack in the back of her car and 30 sororities to pi...