Ep. 8 - Making millions selling mesh shorts with Inaka Power

Don't Be Sour

Maxx Chewning

Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals, Business, Society & Culture

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Today we sit down with Co-Founder of Inaka Power, Shawley Coker and learn about the amazing journey of bringing street culture into fitness apparel. From being almost down to his last dollar, Shawley tells the story of the rise of the brand and how they dominated the category with a bold leap into shorts which changed their business forever.

We also discuss his love of NFT projects and the mistakes he has made along the way as a business owner.

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0:00.0	I have a funny story.
0:01.2	I wanna buy a girl at one day.
0:02.3	Tell me again.
0:03.0	I wanna buy a girl at one day.
0:04.0	You wanna fuck them?
0:04.6	I think that might be illegal.
0:05.6	What is Anaka?
0:06.8	Bro, why are you asking me this?
0:08.3	Fuck it, dude.
0:08.8	Tell the people.
0:09.4	You're fucking crazy.
0:10.3	Can you tell us what Anaka did in revenue last year?
0:12.5	Almost $200,000.
0:13.8	Your business sucks, Shalie? That was pretty fucked up. I'm not going to lie. Oh my God. Why did you want to launch these mesh shorts?
0:22.6	You've definitely...
0:23.6	That's a great question.
0:24.6	I think that's one of the greatest stories of my entire life.
0:27.6	All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Don't Be Sour, episode number eight. This is the most visually appealing podcast in the world. And today we have a very special guest. He is, he might be the world's biggest future fan, Mr. Sholley Coker. Yeah, that's very, very accurate. Extremely accurate. Dude, he just put out a new album. It's sick, right? I loved it.
0:55.0	You didn't like it.
0:56.0	I just think all of this, I feel like every artist's like this, but I feel like all of his
0:58.4	music just sounds the exact same.
1:01.0	Like it, I expect that comment from someone that doesn't like future.
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