Elevating hot sauce to a new standard with Lawrence Wu

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On July 31st, 2015, Lawrence decided to quit his first job out of school to pursue a hot sauce and grocery industry that was ready for change.

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0:00.0	Light that spark fire nation JLD here and welcome episode 1907 of EO Fire.
0:11.0	We're right chat with entrepreneurs on fire. Seven days a week. If you're ready to master
0:16.4	productivity discipline and focus, well you can do that in 100 days. How you ask? We'll
0:22.5	visit the mastery journal dot com and oh by the way use promo code podcast for a little
0:28.5	gift from me JLD now let's chat with today's featured guest Lawrence. Woo Lawrence, are
0:34.2	you prepared to ignite? Absolutely. Yes. On July 31st, 2015 Lawrence decided to quit his
0:44.4	first job out of school to pursue a hot sauce and grocery industry that was ripe for change.
0:52.6	Lawrence taking a minute, fill in some gaps from that in show and give us a little glimpse
0:55.7	of your personal life. I actually grew up in the restaurant industry. Parents first generation,
1:02.6	they started off and eventually owned seven restaurants and there was a lot of disruption there
1:10.5	in terms of limitations. I mean it was so hard for them to build the business and scale the
1:18.0	business. So while I knew I love food and business, I knew that restaurants may not be the best
1:23.5	opportunity. So when I stumbled across a hot sauce, I could really do some damage in the industry.
1:31.0	I jumped on it. I thought it was the perfect opportunity. So today we're speaking. It's actually
1:36.5	currently 2018 as this episode goes live. What would you say your area of expertise is? What's
1:42.9	your genius? What's your zone of fire Lawrence? I would say my area of expertise is really being
1:50.4	able to listen to some of the more intimate details in a conversation. Growing up, my parents weren't
1:59.9	really around in the restaurants and because of that I really became kind of in the background of
2:07.8	the my friends' families and I would get really good at engaging with people and for some reason I
2:15.2	just have this knack for remembering the little details about someone and I think that's gone
2:22.2	a long way in the connections that I've built and have taken advantage of in my business.
2:28.6	Lawrence let's get more specific. I want to hear a hack. Something that you really found that
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