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Chip Gaines: Raising private equity would have accelerated Magnolia but cost 50% equity
“Had we gotten tens of millions of dollars earlier than The downside would have been somebody would have owned 50% of our business. That would have been true. And we could have done that. The upside would have been, we would have been able to build this much mo…”
Chip Gaines: Non-TV revenue dwarfed television earnings for Magnolia
“We made money for, from the TV side of this business, but everything else dwarfed that.”
Joanna Gaines: First Magnolia Inventory Sourced with $25K Line of Credit
“I went to market the first time with my mom, and I had 25,000 dollars. That was my line of credit for inventory”
Joanna Gaines almost quit retail until her father secretly bought her display
“If he would not have fake, you know, sold that thing, I would have quit and said, I'm not doing this, Chip.”
Joanna Gaines: One-day remodel home shows generated $25K to $30K in sales
“I started doing these home shows where, because I still had my vendor contacts, so I would buy about 12,000 to 15,000 dollars of inventory, put it in the house that we were doing, and tell everyone, come look at our newest remodel, and have a one day show, and…”
Joanna Gaines: Magnolia's first day made $2,800 against a $250 break-even goal
“I did the math on the utilities and, you know, my payment to the bank, all the thing, and I had to make 250 dollars a day. So I just told you, if we make 250 dollars a day, we can stay in business. I remember that first day we did about 2800 dollars.”
Chip Gaines viewed HGTV show solely as marketing for Magnolia's core business
“It was always, what is this TV show going to enable us to do on the business side of it? So we were always laser focused on the business part.”
Chip Gaines: Bank halved $500K development credit line during 2008 crash
“So we had gotten this line of credit for 500,000 dollars. We probably had 300,000 dollars worth of that line of credit in the dirt. So in infrastructure, streets were in, you know, curbs and gutters were in... But there was not a single house. And I remember t…”