CROSSNET - World's First Four Square Volleyball Game

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Recorded in my closet during Lockdown. Audio is choppy but the wisdom is real.

In the first Part of this Feature, co-founder and co-inventor of CROSSNET, Chris Meade talks about the early stages of building his brand. Growing up in a small farm town, Chris always dreamed of starting his own company. He moved to New York and worked several jobs that paid the bills but left him feeling exhausted and unfulfilled. Determined to free himself from the drudgery of the 9-to-5, Chris sat down one summer night with his best friend Mike, and brother Greg, to brainstorm ideas. Find out how “4-square volleyball” turned into a multi-million dollar phenomenon. This is the story of CROSSNET.

In part one, Chris talks about His personal journey from growing up in a small town to working for Uber Eats in New York and dreaming of starting his own business, How he came up with the concept of CROSSNET with his best friend Mike and brother Greg, How they used 2 badminton nets to design the prototype, What led to the big decision to quit their jobs and move to Miami, How they sold their first 50 units and were able to jump to 2,500 units per order, How they scaled from $80,000 annual sales to over $12 million in just two years.

Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Chris in Part 1 of this episode and listen to them share the inside story of their brand.

For more on CROSSNET visit: https://www.crossnetgame.com/

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0:00.0	Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce
0:10.9	podcast, and he's not your average host. This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon
0:18.4	Vela.
0:21.1	Started the company in 2017, so we invented the world's first four-way volleyball net.
0:26.6	And it's just been kind of a too good to be true moment for the last three years of my life.
0:31.3	I went from, I was just telling you, I was on a commuting from Connecticut to New York every day,
0:36.4	two hours each way on a train, working at a job I really didn't like, and just kind of just grinding along.
0:42.3	And then we kind of stumbled upon, we kind of get into it later on the show, like we invented this game and we're able to patent it and sell it worldwide.
0:50.3	And it's finally becoming like a household name.
0:53.3	We're sold, like our website is just
0:55.6	blowing up or we're sold everywhere every retail store wants us it's a really good feeling and
1:00.8	I have very little to complain about these days so yeah very very happy with that thing
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