Ep. 3231 - STORY: The Coffee Grinder That Made $300,000
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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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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
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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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