#2057 - Failure Friday: “Then one afternoon I got a call from the police…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Dev Chakravarty from the U.K. He had an idea to start a rental car company for electric vehicles. This turned out to be much more difficult than he expected!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:00.0 | Everything was going so well, and then I got a call from the police. |
| 0:12.8 | That's the title of today's episode. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to Side Us All School. |
| 0:15.8 | My name is Chris Gallipo. |
| 0:17.5 | Today's segment is part of Failure Friday. |
| 0:19.7 | A collection of short stories on mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:24.9 | All of the things that go wrong. |
| 0:27.0 | It's like our Throbac Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from a sadist who has |
| 0:30.4 | struggled in some way. |
| 0:31.4 | They're going to tell you this short story of something that went very wrong. |
| 0:35.0 | These stories will vary, but I don't know if we have ever had one in which the police |
| 0:39.9 | were involved. |
| 0:40.9 | Not sure. |
| 0:41.9 | In any case, today's short story features Dev Chakravarti from the UK. |
| 0:46.5 | Dev had an idea to start a rental car company for blue electric vehicles. |
| 0:50.9 | Very specific. |
| 0:51.9 | Electric vehicles and a color blue, as you'll hear about. |
| 0:54.5 | This turned out to be much more difficult than he expected. |
| 0:57.4 | But it does have a good ending. |
| 0:59.4 | I'll just tell you that much. |
| 1:00.4 | It just takes a little while to get there because of all the challenges. |
| 1:03.7 | I really enjoyed working on this story. |
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