Bogg Bag

“I believe it'll be a billion dollar brands.”

“One point we took out a pension loan from my husband's pension. I used some of the money.”

“And we signed the paperwork, and I gave them 25% of the business.”

“And we handed out every single bag.”

“The greater part of 23, and at the end of 2023, we had five people and some warehouse workers. None of us had any experience in what we were doing, and we closed 2023 at fifty million dollars.”

“By the way, Kim may seem like the kind of founder who would have been perfect for Shark Tank, but she never made it on the show, even though she applied like four times.”

“Between 800 and a thousand.”

“The only need was I was probably in the, you know, twenty million dollar range at that point. And we had no systems. I was taking orders on pen and paper. Everything was done like manually.”

“Yeah, 40% stake, so I maintained control, which was, you know, the issue with the other deal, and, you know, we started the ball rolling”

“Over a hundred million.”

“And basically they were like, no, you need to take these bags first so that we have more room in the factory so that we can make you more bags. And I said, I'm not taking any of these bags. And the guy said well, we'll just sell them then.”

“I was not looking to build a business.”

“Well, shoes in my bags, because we were the only EVA bag at the time, but they were being made in the same type of machinery.”

“So you had three months to hit a million dollars. That's a lot of pressure. Yeah, it was. But we did it. We squeaked it by.”

“Between nine months and a year after Sandy, Now, all these people have had their bog bags in the worst possible scenario. Guy Raz: All these people who got a donation. Kim Vaccarella: Oh, all the, yes. Kim Vaccarella: Everybody that received a donation had the…”

“This was my savings, yeah. Well, my husband and my savings, yeah. And my kid's college fund.”

“We kind of took the opposite, and we went wholesale heavy, so I was about 90% wholesale over COVID.”