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Disclosure
Baxter self-funded Whisker's first five years with $350,000 from his consulting business
“At that time, I think I had dumped about 300 to 350,000 dollars into the business just to keep it alive. And that was all coming from the other business.”
Brad Baxter May 5, 2025 ▶ 33:23 Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
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Whisker generated approximately 80% of its sales direct-to-consumer
“I think we were doing about 80% direct to consumer, and international was maybe five to eight percent, something like that, and the rest was, you know, the small amount of retail that we had at the time, so yeah, direct to consumer is a huge part of our busine…”
Brad Baxter May 5, 2025 ▶ 57:09 Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
Disclosure
Baxter recognized he wasn't the right CEO to scale Whisker past $150M
“So it, for me, it was just recognizing that I'm not the guy that probably is the best person to take the business from, you know, a hundred and fifty million forward.”
Brad Baxter May 5, 2025 ▶ 59:18 Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
Disclosure
Baxter was the sole Litter-Robot assembler for its first four months
“You know, the building, the product we did that in Pontiac, Michigan for a while, and I was actually the sole assembler for probably the first three or four months.”
Brad Baxter May 5, 2025 ▶ 24:26 Whisker/Litter-Robot: Brad Baxter
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