#159 Corbin Clay retired at 38
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
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Corbin Clay started the furniture company Azure which he grew from $0 to selling the company 4 years later and retiring at 38. Corbin tells us exactly how he did it.
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| 0:00.0 | This week we have Corbin Clay on the podcast, he is a country singer. |
| 0:16.2 | He's not a country singer. |
| 0:19.2 | He started a furniture company called Azure and if you guys aren't familiar with it, it |
| 0:27.0 | basically saw a beetle kill pine issue that Colorado was facing and turned it into Scandinavian |
| 0:35.6 | contemporary furniture. |
| 0:37.6 | He let the beetles loose. |
| 0:39.5 | He let the beetles loose. |
| 0:41.0 | It's true. |
| 0:43.0 | But the more interesting story is how he grew that company from a side gig in a garage |
| 0:50.9 | to a company that he was able at one point valued at zero dollars and was able to |
| 0:57.1 | course correct that in four years and sell the company and retire at the age of 38 |
| 1:03.7 | years old. |
| 1:04.7 | He walks us through exactly how he did that. |
| 1:09.2 | It's taken like right now in four years, it seems like a quick amount of time. |
| 1:17.6 | He turned things around quickly. |
| 1:19.6 | This is the time. |
| 1:22.7 | The time is now. |
| 1:26.1 | That being said, I would retire. |
| 1:29.9 | You'd find something to do. |
| 1:32.7 | I would not sign anything that made sure I couldn't compete in the same market. |
| 1:37.3 | That's accurate. |
| 1:38.3 | All right, let's get into it. |
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