250: "Let Me Save You 25 Years" with Shawn Nelson
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Shawn Nelson is the founder and CEO of Lovesac, repeatedly recognized as the fastest growing
furniture brand in the US for over a decade. Lovesac is publicly traded on Nasdaq and is
projected to exceed $1 Billion in annual sales over the next few years with more than 270 Lovesac branded retail locations. From humble beginnings, Shawn founded Lovesac in 1998 making Sacs by hand for neighbors and friends while in college.
In 2005 Shawn won a million-dollar investment by Richard Branson on his prime time hit reality TV
show, The Rebel Billionaire, and was named acting President of Virgin Worldwide for a time. Shawn’s recent book, “Let Me Save You 25 Years,” celebrates Lovesac’s colorful history, and the many “mistakes, miracles, and lessons” learned along the way. Today Shawn and I get to talk about this brand new book release, and he shares with me some of the stories behind these mistakes, miracles and lessons. If you’ve ever wished you could sit with a super successful CEO of a publicly traded company for an hour and learn the most important lessons they’ve picked up along then way, then I think you’re really going to enjoy today’s episode.
Shawn’s new book “Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovsac Story” https://amzn.to/47FVkoO
Shawn’s Podcast “Let Me Save You 25 Years” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/let-me-save-you-25-years/id1714646855
Lovesac products https://www.lovesac.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Sean Nelson is the founder and CEO of Lovezac, repeatedly recognized as the fastest growing |
| 0:05.9 | furniture brand in the U.S. for over a decade. LoveSac is publicly traded on NASDAQ and is projected |
| 0:12.7 | to exceed a billion dollars in annual sales over the next few years with more than 270 Love's |
| 0:19.0 | branded retail locations. From Hum beginning, Sean founded love sack in |
| 0:22.8 | 1998, making sacks by hand for neighbors and friends while in college. In 2005, Sean won a million |
| 0:30.4 | dollar investment by Richard Branson on his prime time hit reality TV show, The Rebel Billionaire, |
| 0:37.3 | and was named acting president of Virgin |
| 0:39.5 | Worldwide for a time. Sean's recent book, Let Me Save You 25 years, celebrates Love Sacks |
| 0:45.9 | colorful history and the many, quote, mistakes, miracles, and lessons learned along the way. |
| 0:53.4 | Today, Sean and I get to sit down and talk about this brand new book release, and he shares with me some of his favorite stories behind the mistakes, the miracles and lessons in the book. |
| 1:03.0 | If you've ever wished, you could sit down with a successful CEO of a publicly traded company for an hour and learn the most important lessons they've picked up |
| 1:11.9 | along the way, then I really think you're going to enjoy today's episode. |
| 1:24.4 | Sean, I'm so excited to have you back on the podcast today. It's been a few years since we |
| 1:29.7 | last talked. And the last time we talked, we just went through your whole entrepreneurial journey. |
| 1:35.3 | And you've hit this new milestone where you came out with a book. So I'm really excited to |
| 1:41.6 | talk about what's inside of the book and some of the lessons that you're sharing in there. |
| 1:46.2 | But first, I'm just curious, why a book? |
| 1:49.2 | Like, because you don't have enough things to do with your time. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah, thanks. |
| 1:54.2 | It's great to be back with you and I love everything you represent. |
| 1:58.9 | Yeah, the book has been a lot of fun. The love sack story is a saga. |
| 2:03.3 | The book is called Let Me Save You 25 years, not just because I wrote a short version of the story. |
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