Ep. 3043 - TBT: From Cracked Screens to Tech Buyback Business
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week's “Throwback Thursday” segment, we hear from a college student who scaled from fixing cracked screens to creating a buyback platform that turns over $20,000 in inventory each month.
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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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 1:02.4 | From crack screens to tech buyback business. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome to Side Usul School. Welcome as well to a brand new |
| 1:12.6 | month, episode 3,043 here as we kick off the 1st of May. Of course, you might be listening |
| 1:18.9 | later, and that's okay. We do our best to make everything evergreen. You can listen to the |
| 1:23.0 | entire archives completely free. Hopefully you'll learn something, get some ideas, a point of |
| 1:27.4 | inspiration, |
| 1:28.3 | maybe save you some time and trouble in your quest to create a new source of income. That's what |
| 1:33.0 | we're all about. Now, today's segment is known as throwback Thursday. Every Thursday, we take an |
| 1:37.9 | in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first featured them. Last week in this |
| 1:42.2 | series, we heard from a pro videographer who ditches |
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