From Working at a Gas Station to Building a $100M business with Moiz Ali

The Ikonns

Alex & Mimi Ikonn

Self-help, Health & Fitness, Dreamlife, Selfimprovement, Education, Inspiring, Mimiikonn, Goals, Influencers, Alexikonn

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today we share with you an inspiring business story of Moiz Ali, genuine entrepreneur, speaker and investor. Moiz is the founder of Native, the fastest growing deodorant company in the United States that was acquired by Procter & Gamble for $100 Million. Join us as we dive into Moiz’s entrepreneurial journey and discover his key life and business lessons.

Full show notes: https://www.ikonns.com/podcast/84

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0:00.0	Hello my beautiful friends and welcome to the icons podcast.
0:05.7	Today we have Moe's Ali and we had a lovely dinner, great conversations and I'm so excited
0:11.8	to dive deeper into your story and not just the story of your inspiring business but also
0:17.5	just your story as a human being as well and where you come from.
0:21.1	So if you could go back to the first 10 years of your life, could you tell me more about
0:25.3	that?
0:26.3	I live there till I was three years old and then my parents moved to Illinois.
0:32.2	Why did they move?
0:33.2	They were running and exporting when they lived in Pakistan textiles into the United States
0:39.0	and they figured it would be make more sense to live closer to their customers because
0:43.4	I guess they had gotten the operations of their textile manufacturing down.
0:47.2	The textiles were manufactured in Pakistan and Bangladesh so they moved to the United
0:51.0	States which is where they were importing them into or exporting them into.
0:54.7	This is where all their customers were and so for the first 10 years of my life that's
0:58.4	what they were doing and then that business went south at least the way my father tells
1:03.1	it I have no idea if this is true because I was 10.
1:05.7	He said that the Chinese market basically opened up to the Chinese manufacturers were starting
1:11.2	to import textiles into the United States and so his business they weren't able to compete
1:15.0	on prices.
1:16.0	You're such an entrepreneur.
1:17.0	You're already talking about your childhood and you're talking about your dad's business.
1:21.8	Literally that was my childhood though.
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