Ep. 3231 - STORY: The Coffee Grinder That Made $300,000

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Rise and shine! A petroleum engineer finds the perfect item to resell on Amazon. He goes on to sell $300,000 worth of the humble coffee grinder.

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0:00.0	If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important
0:05.6	customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy
0:10.1	something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce
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0:48.2	Lemonada.
0:52.7	Rise and shine. Let's talk about the coffee grinder that made $300,000.
1:02.1	$300,000. And in fact, it was $300,000 when we first ran a version of this episode years ago.
1:08.9	So I'm pretty sure it's sold many more thousands of
1:11.8	dollars, many more hundreds of thousands of dollars since. It is one of our early years
1:16.4	stories from 2018, I believe. If you happen to be listening back then, well, it's completely new
1:22.0	now. We re-record everything. And if you didn't hear this story, well, now it's entirely
1:26.9	100% new to you.
1:28.7	We're going to talk about a petroleum engineer who finds the perfect item to resell on
1:33.2	Amazon.
1:34.2	You'll never guess what it is.
1:35.7	Well, I already told you actually, it is the humble coffee grinder.
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