The Ledger
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Lore: The Pit raised $5M from 60 angel investors
“We raised five million dollars, all from 60 angel investors.”
Lore invested his entire $390,000 net worth into The Pit
“I invested 390,000 of my own money Into the company.”
Lore: The Pit did around $10M in transaction revenue in 10 months
“The first 10 months, we were doing about ten million in transaction revenue.”
Lore: P&G and Kimberly-Clark refused to wholesale to 1800Diapers
“Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark, the two big diaper manufacturers that make Pampers and Huggies, they refused to sell us diapers. They said they'd Just don't want to waste your time on a business that's never going to work.”
Lore's childhood baseball card hustle profited by assembling sorted sets
“Big part of the business was grunt work. We would buy cases of baseball cards that weren't sorted, and then we would basically sort them into full sets, and then sell the sets, and the sets were sold at a premium because somebody had to sort them.”
Marc Lore set a cubicle goal: eight-figure earnings by age 48
“I put a sign on my cubicle that said, Goal. Six figures by 26, seven figures by 37, eight figures by 48.”
Marc Lore became Sanwa Bank's youngest executive vice president at age 28
“Yeah, I was the executive vice president, which was by far the youngest executive vice president. Yeah, I was 28 when I got the job, yeah.”