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Q So that's going on. And Curran, you're, you're out of Mary Kay. Mm-hmm. What did you start to do? I mean, did you start to have conversations with people? Did you just, or did you completely stop thinking about work for a while?
A No, I, I just knew I was going to keep working. It wasn't like I was going to retire, but I was starting to realize, hey, you know, I don't want to go back to the corporate world. I want to do something different. I want to be in control of my destiny. I want to be in control of who I work with and how I run the business. And then the turning point was after I had resigned from Mary Kay, several of The key marketing people that worked for me also resigned, and one of those top performers was Emily Dalton, who eventually was the co-founder of Jack Black with us, and we had lunch, and she said, um, why don't we start a business together?
AI assessment note: “No, I, I just knew I was going to keep working.”
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Q grew, you know, you're growing every year, which was impressive. I mean, by, you know, I think, 20 11, you hit Thirty-five million dollars in sales, so 11 years in, but still small compared to the overall cosmetics industry. Did that, in a sense, shield you from potential threats and competitors, or did you already start to see the shark circling, saying, wait a minute, maybe they're on to something?
A Oh, yeah, it was just hyper-competitive. Oh, my gosh. You had everybody from the big companies to the little startups to everybody in between. Because in the industry, everybody's, you know, it's pretty quick to copy something that's working well. So there was a lot of competitors and it was even more brutal than the women's because the total size of the market was so much smaller. The space you were granted on the floor was smaller, but yet there were so many more people wanting to get a piece of it. And some of them could be ruthless. They try to steal your employees, steal your customers. You know, you'd have your space all set up, and the next day you'd go into work, and it was gone, because your competitor moved it. Um, so there was just a lot of battles on the store floors.
AI assessment note: “Oh, yeah, it was just hyper-competitive. Oh, my gosh.”
