Stasher

“You can't run your company the way you want if you take someone else's money, and I wasn't about to let anybody ruin my vision”

“It was 30,000 dollars.”

“I had one friend whose brother had seen the show, and, He said, I don't care what anybody says. You're a complete badass, and I want you to run the company exactly the way you're running it, and here's a half a million dollars without any questions. So I took …”

“In the end, we spent, like, 20, 25,000 dollars on the negotiations, and I really wanted to make it happen, but I wanted a deal that basically let me still run the company the way I wanted to, and I couldn't get that deal, and I had to walk away.”

“I didn't get an order from Target directly, but Inova gave me a great order, and I made a great deal with Inova where they had to pay for the molds for the productions because we didn't have them.”

“He would have been clicking his heels.”

“I had a whole team on Red Point every day that would go on, their job was to go on the internet and see who was knocking us off and serve them.”

“And by the way, just for the record, I didn't get acquired. I brought the acquirers to the table. I saw anybody that would have an arm for massive distribution of stasher out, and I weeded them out.”