Tobi's story building Shopify to $5.7B in revenue 🛒

Hi, Guy & Farzan here,

Happy Sunday. As always, we have a tonne of content to help you grow your side hustle into a full-time gig.

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In the mail:

1. Founder story: 7 figures revenue selling dog dental sticks 🐶

2. Founder playbook: Tobi’s story to $5.7B revenue 🛒

3. Video playbook: This 26 year old Aussie went from $500 to $500M 🇦🇺

4. Video playbook: The 19 year old millionaire selling on Amazon 🤑

5. Quote: A thought provoking quote from Justin Welsh 😍 

6. Fun fact: An interesting fact about Elon and Tesla 🚀

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1. Founder story

See how Arianne grew Bell & Bone to 7 figures in revenue selling Australian made dog dental sticks. 🐶

Founderoo caught up with an Aussie founder Arianne Sackville who is running a 7-figure healthy dog treat business in an already saturated market. And to top it off, She did it by being bootstrapped and with only 3 employees to date! 😵

We’re starting to see a trend 📈 with successful founders, so many of them are good at finding solutions to seemingly impossible problems that most others walk away from. They then manage to overcome them with simple yet creative solutions.

Arianne needed to land a manufacturer who refused to work with her, by sending them weekly updates of her success, and running location-based targetted Facebook ads to the manufacturer to convince them to work with her 🤯

Head over to Founderoo to check out her story for yourself. It’s definitely worth a read!

2. Founder playbook

From Snowboards to Software: Tobi Lütke's Journey to Building Shopify's $5.6 billion E-commerce Empire 🛒

See how Tobi Lütke turned his love for snowboarding into a world-changing platform: Shopify! 💥

🇩🇪 Tobi Lütke, a passionate self-taught programmer from Germany, faced learning disabilities like ADHD and dyslexia. Despite the odds, he carved out a successful career in software engineering. 🌟

🏂 When Tobi moved to Canada 🍁 for love, he combined his passion for snowboarding and tech skills to co-found Snow Devil, an online store with Scott Lake. The duo hustled, using Google ads and flyers to get their first customers. 💪

🤔 The custom software Tobi built for Snow Devil caught the attention of others. This sparked an idea: why not help entrepreneurs worldwide with an e-commerce platform? Shopify was born! 🎉

🚀 The turning point came when Tobi secured $7M in funding and embraced marketing. By 2013, Shopify had 80,000 customers and 300 employees. Today, it empowers 4 million+ merchants globally! 🌐

💙 Tobi's story shows us that passion, determination, and the courage to pivot can lead to extraordinary success. He's still an entrepreneur at heart, even running a secret Shopify store selling socks! 🧦

Experience Tobi's emotional and inspiring journey yourself! 🤩👇

3. Video playbook

See how this 26 year old Aussie went from $500 to $500M

See how Davie tried a dozen ideas before he landed on a winning one and turned it into a business with half a billion in revenue. Have a watch of this inspiring story.

4. Video playbook

Meet the 19 year old making millions selling in Amazon 🤑

Kenzo has built an 8 figure business selling wholesale on Amazon. He's built an Amazon empire, becoming one of the top Amazon sellers at 19. He’s flash but bloody impressive. Have a watch.

5. Quote

A thought provoking quote from Justin Welsh 😍

6. Fun fact: Elon Musk 🚀

He almost sold Tesla to Google
During a difficult period for Tesla, Musk reportedly contacted Google CEO Larry Page to buy the struggling car company. The two men agreed on a sale price of $6 billion in 2013, but the deal never went through.

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