How I Built a $10M Shoe Company from Scratch with Sebastian Malczewski
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sebastian Malczewski, a Polish immigrant and proud father is CEO of Marc Nolan, a rapidly expanding Chicago-based fashion brand committed to seamlessly combining style with accessibility.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Believe in yourself , listen to your gut, find the right people and develop them to be the best they can be.
2. Give the luxury feel with affordable price to your customers and pay much attention to their comfort.
3. Never micromanage people. Listens to them and try to step out of the box.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. |
| 0:07.1 | Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals |
| 0:11.8 | with great shows like The Hustle Daily Show. Today we'll be breaking down the story of building |
| 0:16.3 | a $10 million shoe company from complete scratch. To drop these value bombs, I brought Sebastian M into Eofire Studios. |
| 0:23.7 | Sebastian is a Polish immigrant, proud father, and CEO of Mark Nolan, a rapidly expanding |
| 0:29.2 | Chicago-based fashion brands committed to seamlessly combining style with accessibility. |
| 0:34.4 | In today, Farnation, we're going to talk about aha moments, scaling operations, |
| 0:37.9 | marketing, and product development. We also talk the biggest challenges, and as well as being |
| 0:42.6 | unique so that you're not swallowed up by the noise in a competitive market and oh so much more. |
| 0:48.4 | And the big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Sebastian and our sponsors. |
| 0:53.7 | The Next Wave, your chief AI officer, hosted by Matt Wolf |
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| 1:10.5 | and how you can apply to growing your business. Listen to The Next Wave strives to be the leading podcast on AI technology and how you can |
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| 1:36.1 | at Thriveetime Show.com slash EO. Fire. Sebastian, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about |
| 1:47.2 | becoming successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:51.4 | Thank you for having me. |
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