My First Million
#113 - From Furniture Store to Water Delivery: The Millions in Boring Businesses
Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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() The guys break down Frank Slootman (Snowflake founder’s) Linkedin post, () Sam brings up Rocket Internet, a German company that clones mainstream startups in smaller geographic markets. They scale quickly and are formulaic, () Sam is fascinated by Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shack among other places, () Shaan shares his story about the Melman’s and their empire, Lettuce Entertain You, () The guys discuss Hamdi Ulukaya the founder of Chobani, () The guy’s talk blue collar businesses, including Waste Management and its founder Wayne Huizenga, () The story of Rose Blumkin, founder of Nebraska Furniture Mart, () Shaan talks about his water problem and subscription water companies like ReadyRefresh and Culligan, () The Uber for evictions: Civvl, () The student debt market explained, () B2B vs consumer businesses Check out this week's sponsor: Ourcrowd. They make it easy to invest in early startups. Go to ourcrowd.com/thehustle to get started. Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas.
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