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Mattress Mack lost $9.5 million on the Super Bowl (and was happy about it)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jim McIngvale, aka. Mattress Mack, is a 71-year-old entrepreneur known for making INSANE million-dollar bets on various sports.

You might think he has a crazy gambling problem. But actually, these are very creative marketing campaigns to promote his furniture store.

Mack came from humble beginnings. He started a furniture business in 1981 with just $5,000 dollars, and now it's a HUGE business making $200 million dollars a year in revenue — he also gives a ton of it away.

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0:00.0

You know when I came down there I was afraid of falling on my face and going back to Dallas and being broken unemployed all my

0:07.3

Friends neighbors relatives would say I told you so because the odds of us making it down every were a million to one, but you know, my wife and I had a great big

0:14.7

inherent advantage, and that advantage was called desire. I still think in this country you can do anything

0:20.0

you want to do if you want to do it bad enough. Get up, get off your ass and go to work. That's my message.

0:25.4

What is up you sexy bastard? It is your boy George Michael, aka

0:31.6

rob I can't lose, aka Noah K kegan in today's episode I talked to Jim

0:35.3

mickenville aka mattress mac now you may have actually heard of this guy on the

0:40.1

super bowl he made a nine million million bet for the Cincinnati Bangles. He lost. Now you might

0:46.7

think this is a crazy gambling problem but no it's actually amazing marketing campaigns.

0:50.8

I wasn't expecting to put out this podcast, but after chatting with

0:53.4

the 20 minutes, I could not help but share with you. This guy has an amazing

0:56.8

story and an amazing attitude and I think it's gonna kick your tuchess, which is a Yiddish word

1:00.7

for butt, in the butt, so that you get going and have an epic day.

1:04.0

I think you're going to love Jim as much as I did.

1:06.0

This guy came from humble beginnings with just $5,000 in 1981,

1:10.0

and now his business is making over $200 million a year.

1:12.0

Plus he gives a ton of it away to

1:13.7

the people of Houston I had so much respect for this guy make sure to follow

1:16.8

mattress Mac on Facebook that's Facebook dot com slash mattress Mac

1:20.0

check out his furniture store at gallery furniture.com. Now here's three gigantic things

1:24.8

you're going to take away from this episode. One, why tough times don't last but

1:28.2

tough people do. Two, the reason why relationships are the currency of life and three

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