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Osher: Offered $10M to buy back Spinbrush; P&G leveraged for $75M
“I said, I would, but I'm not willing to pay much money. I'll give you ten million dollars for the whole thing, but I'll close next week. You know, everything else was, they were always waiting six months, you know, and then there would be due diligence. I said…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 55:00 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
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Osher: Spinbrush scrapped 400K defective units and raised $500K for redesign
“And we had 400,000 of them in our warehouse, and I had to make a decision. This is a consumable product, and this is potentially so big, and if I continue to sell this, it will die. And I went back to my partners in it, my investors, and I said, I'm gonna scra…”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 41:50 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
Disclosure
Osher: Spinbrush targeted the manual toothbrush market, not high-end electrics
“We really never considered, or worried about, or competed with the high end, which was, some of them were 50 bucks, and we basically saw the manual market. That's where the numbers were.”
John Osher Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 31:35 Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M
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