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My First Million

Patrick Campbell: The Billion $ Quilting Industry And Using Spy Secrets To Gain A Competitive Edge

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 7 July 2022

ā±ļø 72 minutes

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Summary

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Founder & CEO at ProfitWell, Patrick Campbell (@Patticus), about the billion dollar quilting industry, using spy secrets in business, buying cheap debt and a hostile takeover of a person. Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest. ----- Links: * ProfitWell * Missouri Star Quilt Co. * Hallmark * KMikeyM * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (01:35) - Patrick Campbell background (07:55) - Surprising businesses: Quilting and craft industry (20:55) - Chili's and Applebees (25:25) - Why you should invest in unsexy businesses (26:50) - Rolling up trades & things for old people (30:05) - Using spy secrets to get competitive intel (46:30) - Buying debt to forgive it (49:40) - How it feels to get very rich very young (55:00) - Hostile takeover of a person ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0

It has a bunch of factors that individually are strong characters of like potentially good businesses,

0:05.8

but when you stack them, it becomes even more valuable. So it's like this is a stacking of trends.

0:11.1

So you have the trend of DIY and crafts at home, right? Then you have the trend of oddly satisfying.

0:17.8

Then you add on community and it's like, oh yeah, people get together and they do this together.

0:22.4

And so you start stacking these on top of each other, then it's like nostalgia. And it's like,

0:26.6

that means something to our family because she made it, right? It's like a memory of her.

0:30.4

So you stack all these things on top of each other and now you have this like, you know,

0:33.7

lung island iced tea of a business where you stack all these different, you know, things into one

0:38.6

cocktail and it's just a strong, you know, set up a bitch.

0:41.6

Yeah.

0:53.9

All right, we are live. What's going on, man? How are you?

0:57.7

What's going on, gentlemen?

1:00.0

So we have Patrick Campbell. The company was profit well.

1:04.2

Yeah, so start originally it was, it was something else for first, right?

1:08.4

Yeah, we called it price intelligently. So we did a little piece of pricing software, morphed into

1:13.2

pricing software and service, a lot of service actually and then started building this metrics tool

1:18.5

and all that kind of fun stuff and then recently sold the paddle, which is a payments infrastructure

1:23.3

product. If that means. And the headline, the headline price was $200 million and you bootstrapped

1:28.6

the company and I think at a tweet you said you owned, I don't know if it was you and your

1:32.3

co-founder or company owned, but like you guys owned almost all of it, right? Yeah, we were

1:37.3

a bus driver, so we owned 100% of it. And so we, yeah, but we were pretty generous. I think

1:42.3

it tweeted about the fact that we were pretty generous about giving out equity. So it wasn't like I

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