Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce
My First Million

Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 20261 hr 2 min
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  • Business & money

$1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building https://clickhubspot.com/brcv Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk to Grant Lafontaine ( https://x.com/GrantLaFontaine ) the founder of Whatnot. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:00) Grant turned down Shaan’s investment (2:12) Shaan buys a crab on Whatnot (3:58) First 1,000 users (19:07) Black hat growth tactics (28:52) 30 sales to $2.3M in year 1 (34:03) $2.3M to $163M in year 2 (34:56) $163M to $1B in year...

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you build a company that is worth $20 billion. But just to put that in perspective, that is more than if you add up the entire market cap of Wendy's, Under Armour, Hertz rental car, Harley Davidson,

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American Airlines also. Isn't that bananas when you hear that? Yeah, I think it's absolutely nuts. I feel like I can rule the world.

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I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On the road, let's travel, never looking back. What I find interesting about you is that you went from a guy who's a kid who was working in a deli almost failed out of high school

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