#1546 - Failure Friday: NASA Sweatpants Not Ready for Liftoff
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the maker of Swoverall’s, a sweatpant-overall combo experiencing fantastic success—at least, until the brand tries to partner with NASA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to SideUSX School. My name is Chris Villado. So glad you're here. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome as well to our new segment, Failure Friday. Been running these for about a month so far, |
| 0:14.8 | getting some great feedback. The whole reason we're doing it is because I believe we can learn |
| 0:19.2 | as much from Failure as we can from success, perhaps even more. So that's why we're presenting this |
| 0:24.5 | collection of short stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:29.6 | It's okay. It's not a bad word. It happens, right? Just like our throwback Thursday segment, |
| 0:33.8 | you're going to hear directly from SideUSX players who have struggled to get something off the ground. |
| 0:38.0 | They're going to tell you a quick story of something that went very wrong. So far, these stories |
| 0:41.7 | have been very honest, very transparent. You know, I had this great idea. I thought it was a great |
| 0:46.4 | idea at least, but it turned out to not be a good idea. Or, you know, maybe it was a good idea, |
| 0:50.4 | but something went wrong in the execution, which is along the theme of what you're going to hear today. |
| 0:55.7 | So I really applaud their courage. I appreciate everybody who's been part of this so far. Just like |
| 0:59.9 | I appreciate you, our listener. Thank you for being part of this. All right. Today's short story |
| 1:05.2 | features Kyle Bergman from New York City. We have told the successful story of his Swoeveralls project |
| 1:11.1 | on episode 394. Swoeveralls are, well, he'll describe it in more detail, but basically think |
| 1:17.1 | sweatpants overalls. And they're awesome, not just awesome. They're fantastic. More on that in a |
| 1:22.2 | moment. We also featured him in the 100 side hustles book. So great product, great success. But, |
| 1:28.3 | of course, he's had some struggles along the way, including a new product line in partnership with NASA. |
| 1:34.7 | Like many of failed space shuttle launch, this one didn't go according to plan. Let's hear from Kyle. |
| 1:40.8 | I'll come back at the end to wrap us up. |
| 1:42.4 | Hey there. My name is Kyle and I am the founder and owner of the Greek Fantastic. The great |
| 1:53.7 | Fantastic is creating the world's comfiest apparel products using sustainable resources |
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