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Josh Hochschuler

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2025 by Josh Hochschuler · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 30, 2025
Disclosure
Hochschuler sold Talenti to his partner for $20 every Passover
“During Passover, there's certain rules, you're not allowed to own certain things, one of them being food that you're not allowed to eat during that period, so I would have to sell him the business and He would have to give me 20 dollars and have a handshake”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 1:09:17 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025 negative
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A major client liquidated a massive Talenti order before declaring bankruptcy
“So towards the end, before they went bankrupt, they ordered this huge order, like, way larger than normal. They received it, and then they marked it way down, and sold it off, but I never got paid.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 37:23 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
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Hochschuler took a $70,000 personal loan to cover payroll despite heavy debt
“I think it was more than that. I think it was like 70 or 80,000 dollars, but it was way more than they probably should have given me, but they did.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 39:41 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
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Hochschuler pitched 110 friends and family for Talenti; 95 rejected him
“A business plan I had built, which was one of the longest business plans you could ever imagine, and the vast majority, probably 95 of them or so, said no.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 20:04 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
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Hochschuler raised nearly $600,000 to launch the first Talenti store in Dallas
“I think my goal was 600 grand. I think I got close to it. Maybe I was a little bit shy, but it was around there.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 21:07 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025 negative
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Talenti's first retail store failed because customers only bought two-dollar cups
“The problem is the average ticket. The small size was, let's say, two dollars, and almost everyone was just buying that, and the store itself was quite large, and there was a lot of overhead, and the business model was built on there being a considerable amoun…”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 23:24 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Investors Steve Gill and Eddie Phillips bought out Talenti's original storefront backers
“So their balance sheets helped with getting approvals on those things and so, but yeah, they put in money and they bought out all of my original storefront investors.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 47:08 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
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Hochschuler funded Talenti using 16 zero-percent credit cards and a second mortgage
“I had like 16 of those that I built up. I got I was able to buy a house with like five percent down a little house. And then I took a second mortgage out on that and then put it into the business.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 31:25 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
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Hochschuler: Talenti held $200K–$300K in debt upon closing storefront
“Probably something like that, like two to 300,000, as long as you don't consider the fact that at the time there was a lease, right?”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 30:30 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025
Disclosure
Hochschuler began observing the weekly Shabbat in 2006 despite Talenti's vulnerability
“It was about February of 2006 when my wife and I decided that we would start keeping Shabbos”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 1:06:39 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Hochschuler named Talenti after Bernardo Buontalenti, the 16th-century inventor of gelato
“I was reading a lot about this gentleman, Bernardo Buontalenti from Florence. He lived in the 1500, and he's credited with basically inventing gelato.”
Josh Hochschuler Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 21:37 Talenti: Josh Hochschuler
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