Happy Father's Day Y'all! My dad, who was an AMAZING entrepreneur in his own right, passed away in 2018 and unfortunately for 10 years before that, because of illness, he wasn't able to advise me on my entrepreneurial journey. 1/n
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Didn't matter though, because I inherited his balls, resilience, and PERSISTENCE. So let me tell you a little story about a great man, the man I called today to wish Happy Father's Day, who became my mentor in 2013 and taught tons about how to be successful. 2/n
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His name is Bob. And the story I'm going to tell you is how I met Bob. Before that, here's a sampler of what he taught me: 1. How to hire 2. Accounting/bookkeeping 3. SALES. "Get on the fucking plane Molson and see your customers." and many many more important life lessons. 3/n
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I'm going to free form this tweet-storm so bare with me while I write the tweets... 4/n
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February 2013. I founded my company in 2010 and I was absolutely terrible, but I worked really hard and in 2012 I had, iirc about $50k in sales. I was living with my mom to save money and using our basement as our warehouse. Life sucked! I had just closed the biggest retail 5/n
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deal of my life with a small 30 store chain by repacking a 20' container of defective merchandise. I would get up early in the morning, hire illegal immigrants, and bring them back to my house and we'd repackage all the defective merchandise. Eventually, they realized 6/n
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
You could probably write a hell of a book about all these experiences breaking into that business.
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I have a lot of crazy stories. First decade was not easy!
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