Jeff Jan
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Solo Stove's founders did not sell any shares during its 2021 IPO
“We didn't sell any stock at the IPO. That IPO was truly an IPO where new stock was issued. So it wasn't a liquidity event for us.”
REI agreed to stock Solo Stove via a single email exchange
“It was just one email, very brief email saying that he wanted to carry all of our products and we just replied back. Like there was no meeting. There was no testing. It just went straight into their stores.”
Solo Stove generated up to $10M in revenue as a two-person operation
“Revenue at that time I think was, I mean, between Fox and Solo, I was probably close to about, I want to say like seven-ish million bucks, Jeff.
Is that, do you think that's about right?
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, seven to 10 or somewhere around there.”
Jeff Jan eliminated his household debt before going full-time on Solo Stove
“I kind of had this plan of, well, if we can get rid of all of our debt, it was basically three things. If I could Bring in enough income to allow her to be a stay-at-home mom, and we had, I think, two kids at the time with a third on the way, and we could pay …”
Solo Stove was originally started to achieve a four-hour workweek
“We had this, I had this idea of this four hour work week. That's why we set out to do this.”
Spencer and Jeff Jan invested $15,000 for Solo Stove's initial tooling
“I remember it's 15,000 dollars we put in... That was to get the tooling paid for.”
Jeff Jan's formula for e-commerce: lightweight, durable, and high-value products
“There's kind of a formula in there with the different types of products that work in an e-commerce type of business. And there was a list in there, and I don't remember everything, but there were definitely things, it was basically something that was, that you…”