#2162 - Failure Friday: “My maple syrup was stolen by a Canadian cartel…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a maple syrup reseller (this is a thing) whose inventory was stolen by a Canadian cartel (this is not a joke). How does he handle this sticky crisis??
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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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| 0:30.0 | Did you know that more than 70% of the world's maple syrup comes from the Canadian propens |
| 0:43.2 | of Quebec? |
| 0:44.2 | It is true, fun fact, and by many accounts the supply of syrup is tightly controlled |
| 0:49.2 | by a syndicate that operates like a cartel. |
| 0:52.5 | That is also completely true. |
| 0:54.7 | Welcome to Side Usal School and happy December to you. |
| 0:58.3 | My name is Chris Killebo, I hope you are doing well wherever you are in the world. |
| 1:01.7 | Got a pretty crazy story for you here today. |
| 1:04.2 | Today is our failure Friday segment based on the principle that we can learn as much |
| 1:07.4 | from failure as we can from success, even when a Canadian cartel, a maple syrup syndicate |
| 1:13.8 | steals your inventory. |
| 1:15.7 | That is correct. |
| 1:16.7 | That is, well you're going to hear all about it basically. |
| 1:19.1 | So in this segment just like Thurback Thursday you get to hear directly from a side |
| 1:22.2 | us, Lord, an entrepreneur, someone who struggled in some way and they will tell you this quick |
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