Q own goals. Some people want to have a physical shop somewhere. Some people want to have a software company. Some people want to do drop shipping. So everyone has a different goal inevitably, but how did you get to Your first business and was it related to your lifestyle goals or did you completely ignore that and just said, I want to do e-commerce and how did you get there?
A What happened was, is that when I moved to Vancouver, I had a job. I did get a job and it was just a contract working in basically sales and marketing for a little sports company. And I was in contact with a lot of independent sales reps in the sports community. So it was Vancouver, lots of guys who sold skis and ski boots for big companies. You can imagine The Nikes of the world, not really Nike, but the smaller companies have independent reps selling into stores, and I met a lot of these guys. I was building out a wholesale network for a company that sold outdoor sports gear. I actually, like, just met a guy on the floor of a store, and he was telling me, you remember those, like, five, they were called Vibram five-fingered shoes that were popular a decade ago. They were, like, five toes. Yeah, so I met a guy, and he was the rep. He was just telling me how That business was booming and they were going to do a hundred million in sales. And I just like, couldn't believe it. I said, well, the biggest problem with that business is don't these shoes just like completely stink. And he said, yeah, but there's, you know, there's no solution for that. I just like had this like moment of, you know, light bulb and I was like, there's no solution athletes like natural products. And so I just went home. And in fact, I think I just turned around after conversation ended and likes just star…
AI assessment note: “I pretty much decided on the spot. I'm just going to try this.”