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Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
- ▶ 1:12 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Vijan Patel spun dirty laundry into a tidy business with PressBox, a dry cleaner that grew to hundreds of locations before selling to Procter & Gamble.
- ▶ 3:16 Guy Raz But their company, PressBox, eventually expanded to other states. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Guy Raz So it's 2013, and Vijan has just joined his co-founder Drew in Chicago to launch their new laundry business, PressBox.
- ▶ 38:53 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, PressBox guards its customer base by building its own laundry facility, and then winds up competing with one of the biggest companies in the world.
- ▶ 45:13 Vijen Patel I'm going to use PressBox.
- ▶ 47:20 Guy Raz We need lockers like PressBox has. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:58 Vijen Patel And so they were more curious to meet with us because of how we built PressBox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:36 Vijen Patel We'd go work for P&G, and they would rebrand PressBox to Tide Cleaners.
- ▶ 1:01:39 Guy Raz Um, you found a, a venture firm called the 81 collection, and I guess you're focusing on something pretty specific, which is investing in companies like PressBox, basically like boring industries, right?
- ▶ 1:05:26 Guy Raz That's Vijan Patel, co-founder of PressBox, now known as Tide Cleaners.