Ep. 1744 Doing Business in an Age of Shutdowns, with CEO Donald Wilson

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Donald Wilson is the CEO of GearBubble, the platform I’ll be using to offer Tom Woods Show merchandise, and where over 150,000 people sell print-on-demand products like phone cases, mugs, and T-shirts. We discuss everything from his inauspicious start – he sold a single product the day he launched – to his current numbers (GearBubble has now done over $100 million in sales), as well as what it’s been like running a physical-product business during these months of shutdowns, and how sellers running their own stores on his platform have been more insulated from shutdowns than the traditional brick-and-mortar variety. How to Build an Online Store:

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 1744.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
0:13.4	Hi, everybody.
0:14.9	Tom Woods here, joined today by Donald Wilson, who is the CEO of a company called Gear Bubble,
0:21.5	which is the company that before the year is out, I will finally be using as a platform
0:28.2	to be selling Tom Wood Show merchandise.
0:30.4	I am sick and tired.
0:31.6	I mean, this playfully of people tell me, how come I can't get a shirt or a mug or whatever,
0:38.4	all these different sorts of things with your logo or with some funny saying or anything
0:42.6	from the show.
0:44.1	Other shows have that.
0:45.1	Brian McClannahan show has that, et cetera, et cetera.
0:48.8	So why don't you have it?
0:49.8	All right.
0:50.8	Well, because I've been a lazy bum.
0:51.8	If that's the answer, you need that's the answer.
0:53.4	I'm going to give you anyway.
0:55.3	Don Wilson runs this platform that I'm using.
0:57.9	So I thought, well, I'm using this platform to sell my wares to people who are demanding
1:02.7	them.
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