Brad Black: EO Products succeeded by simply not going out of business
Brad Black · EO Products: Susan Griffin-Black & Brad Black · Jul 15, 2019 · at 53:46
EO Products co-founder Brad Black reflects on how he and co-founder Susan Griffin-Black bootstrapped and sustained their natural personal care brand through extreme resilience.
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“We're not such great business people. We're really great not going out of business people. We haven't had the luxury to go out of business or not to make it work. There's never been a choice not to be successful, not to make it work.”
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