From Donut Salesman To Taking On Alibaba and Building A Billion Dollar Global Product Marketplace | Raine Mahdi
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.4 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This Millionaire Mindcast episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/MINDCAST and get on your way to being your best self.
Today, we have a great guest, Raine Mahdi who shares wisdom and his entrepreneurial journey, tips on how to be a successful businessperson, evaluating opportunities, the power of not quitting and believing in yourself, reflecting oneself, and building a billion-dollar global product marketplace!
Raine Mahdi is a successful entrepreneur, and Founder at Zipfox, one of the world's best factories and the only one B2B global product sourcing platform in Mexico that offers the entire process from product search to shipping. He is a salesperson by nature, and fired up not just to succeed in business but to create balance in life and achieve real happiness!
Some Questions I Ask:
How did you begin this entrepreneurial journey yourself?
How have you foster the belief of yourself and build that confidence as an entrepreneur?
What are some of the basic things that people can think about or do when assessing opportunities?
Is money motivation for you?
How do you take time to set back, reflect, appreciate where you’re at based on where you are going, and figure out what you do differently?
How did your packaging company evolve?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Cost versus value.
The power of realizing ideas into action.
Why keep going when experiencing a rough path.
Creating a business as an art form.
The importance of reflecting oneself.
Quotes:
“You can never pay enough to get exactly what you want.”
“Entrepreneurship is the greatest self-discovery path that any human being can go on on this planet.”
“If fear is the only reason that you don’t do that, then it’s a problem.”
“You can make money doing anything.”
“Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is…”
Resources Mentioned:
10x is Easier Than 2x book by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy
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| 0:00.0 | had a little handwritten sign on paper in the window. They said a dozen day old donuts, so yesterday's |
| 0:05.1 | donuts for one dollar. So my mom goes, wait a minute, maybe instead of buying you a dollar donut |
| 0:09.4 | today, I can buy you a dozen donuts from yesterday for a dollar. You can take those to school. |
| 0:13.5 | And if you can sell them, you can make your lunch money that I give you every day. And you can |
| 0:16.7 | have your own donut. And so I was up for it. She bought a dozen donuts. Within a week or two, |
| 0:21.3 | there was just a line when I got to school of kids waiting for those donuts. They were selling out. |
| 0:26.3 | And so, lying into donuts. Yeah. And again, encouraged me and reinforced that belief in myself that like, |
| 0:32.1 | wow, you know, if I try something, if I go for it, it'll work and look at all this demand. It was exciting for me. |
| 0:40.1 | So I can get into every little nook and cranny of my life. |
| 0:44.4 | But really, that's what I always look back to when I'm asked that question about where it all started for me. |
| 1:03.4 | It's really those two moments because everything after that is just me having ideas and pursuing them. Well, I'm excited to welcome in my brother, Rain Mardi of Zip Fox. |
| 1:04.0 | How we doing, man? |
| 1:05.3 | Doing good. How are you, bro? |
| 1:06.3 | I'm good. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, we're both coming off some nice Fourth of Julys, some fun, some fireworks, some family time. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm not sure I even asked you. |
| 1:14.3 | What did you do? |
| 1:15.3 | I told you what I did. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, we, so we did a little pool party hopping. |
| 1:19.8 | You know, me and my girls, they're like fish right now. |
| 1:22.4 | You know, in Cali, I mean, you get a little nicer weather down south, but we're dry heat. |
| 1:27.3 | You know, it's been |
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