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How I Made Over $220M In Sales Creating Scrub Daddy | The Ground Up
How I Made Over $220M In Sales Creating Scrub Daddy | The Ground Up
On store shelves, customers might only see a bright yellow smile waiting to add some shine to the kitchen. But, behind the iconic ridges and gleaming eye holes are years of sweat and machine grime for Aaron Krause, 54, Scrub Daddy’s Founder and CEO. Aaron's entrepreneurial journey started when he was just a kid living in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. At 10 years old, he created his first invention: A rope and pulley system to turn his bedroom light on and off from his bed so he didn't have to get up and do it. From there, Aaron kept his innovative side going by washing cars in the neighborhood. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1992 with a psychology degree, he told his family that he was going to open his own car washing business. His family was shocked and upset with his career path, to say the least. But Aaron knew he could make it work. Not only by washing cars, but to start inventing new products. In 1994, he invented his first big product, which was a buffing pad for polishing cars. In 1995, Aaron sold his car washing business and turned his focus to a new venture: Dedication To Detail, a buffing pad manufacturer. A few years after creating his business, he received polyester urethane foam from German manufacturer FoamPartner, which became a key part of Scrub Daddy's material now known as FlexTexture. However, the buffing pads he was selling with this foam at this time did not sell well and he was forced to stop selling it due to low sales in the market. On September 3, 2008, Dedication To Detail was bought out by multi-national manufacturer 3M. Aaron's sponges ended up sitting at the back of the Detail factory for five years until March 2011 when they found a new life. That foam became the material of the sponge for the Scrub Daddy, which he pitched on Shark Tank in October 2012. As soon as the episode aired, Aaron's life changed forever. Since then, the company moved their headquarters to Pennsauken, New Jersey in 2021. Their newest facility features a television studio, a warehouse, a koi pond, and a store for customers to buy their products. Today, Scrub Daddy has made over $220 million in sales for 2023. But, Aaron said his sponge empire is just getting started. 00:00 – This Is Scrub Daddy 00:30 – Meet The Scrub Daddy 01:24 – The Sponge Dynasty 02:22 – Aaron’s First Invention 03:07 – An Early Entrepreneur 04:05 – Creating The Buffing Pad 04:42 – Finding The Right Material & Securing A Patent 05:57 – Starting Dedication to Detail 07:07 – The New Life Of A Sponge 09:02 – Building A Company 10:12 – Spotting A Knock Off 10:22 – Pitching To His First Customers 10:39 – Leveraging The Press 10:57 – Scrub Daddy’s QVC Debut 12:07 – Feeling Inspired By Shark Tank 12:49 – The Road To Shark Tank 13:07 – Perfecting The Pitch 13:54 – Preparing To Swim With Sharks 14:25 – An Unexpected Change 14:49 – Robert Herjavec’s Herald For Retail 15:16 – Mark Cuban’s Cut And Run 15:26 – Withdrawing Mr. Wonderful 16:13 – Lori Greiner See’s A Gain 17:11 – Aaron’s Vindication 17:53 – A Deal for Scrub Daddy 18:07 – Reaching New Heights 18:46 – Aaron's Partnership With Lori 19:51 – Scrub Daddy Moves To Pennsauken 20:11 – Aaron's Business Vision 20:59 - Keeping Sustainability In Their Sights 22:12 - One Thing Aaron Would Change 22:42 - Scrub Daddy's Future 23:13 - The Krause's Family Lesson 24:19 - What Aaron's Learned 24:39 - Outro Subscribe to Fortune - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=FortuneMagazineVideo Fortune Magazine is a global leader in business journalism with 55 million monthly page views and a readership of nearly 32 million, with major franchises including the Fortune 500 and the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. The new Fortune video channel dives into personal stories from business owners and entrepreneurs becoming successful in business and sharing their tips to help you reach your goals. Website: http://fortune.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FortuneMagazine Twitter: https://twitter.com/FortuneMagazine TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fortune #ScrubDaddy #Scrubdynasty #Fortune
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How I Made Over $220M In Sales Creating Scrub Daddy | The Ground Up
The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
Today’s public incident writeup comes courtesy of Brendan Humphries, the CTO of Canva. Like so many other incidents that came before, this is another tale of saturation, where the failure mod…
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The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience
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WE GOT INTEL'S PROTOTYPE GRAPHICS CARD!!
WE GOT INTEL'S PROTOTYPE GRAPHICS CARD!!
Check out the Massdrop x Sennheiser PC37X Gaming Headset for $119.99 USD on Massdrop at http://dro.ps/linus-pc37x Buy CORSAIR's Dark Core SE Wireless Mouse on Amazon at http://geni.us/f4ViD We got our hands on a PROTOTYPE video card from Intel. But does it actually do anything?... Buy Intel CPUs on Amazon: http://geni.us/809gd Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/926958-unboxing-intels-prototype-gpu/ Our Affiliates, Referral Programs, and Sponsors: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/75969-linus-tech-tips-affiliates-referral-programs-and-sponsors Linus Tech Tips merchandise at http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/LinusTechTips/ Linus Tech Tips posters at http://crowdmade.com/linustechtips Our Test Benches on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/linustechtips Our production gear: http://geni.us/cvOS Get LTX 2018 tickets at https://www.ltxexpo.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/linustech Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/linustech Intro Screen Music Credit: Title: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/
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WE GOT INTEL'S PROTOTYPE GRAPHICS CARD!!
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These are the areas where I see technology shaping society in 2025 and beyond—and it all starts with mission-driven work.
·allthingsdistributed.com·
Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
Building Conway's Game of Life in Transport Tycoon
Building Conway's Game of Life in Transport Tycoon
This one took a while. Enjoy my one-of-a-kind combination let's play/tutorial/showcase video Map Downloads: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uzCV5M25_dgnBftXoasQBzqtO9yB-3Fb?usp=sharing Game Operator's Manual: https://pastebin.com/raw/gigTzFEx The prototype file contains my testing world, with all the designs from the planning phase. The "Final Build" worlds contain the actual build, and are loaded with various preset patterns, detailed in the save's title. Beware that as I made more patterns, I also fixed more bugs. Some preset pattern saves may have bugs that were fixed for later patterns. The "Empty Grid" save is the most up-to-date out of the bunch. Jewo_GRFS' Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jewoGRFS There's a lot more stuff on this channel besides the memory cell. I recommend checking out his CPU, it's very cool. You may notice that some of the file dates in this video are from 4 months ago. I think I got burnt out around the time I placed the 4000th train, or maybe it was the 500,000th rail. No idea. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:18 Testing and Planning 3:56 Clock Saga 5:15 Neighbor Counting 8:14 "Player Resistance" Discourse 10:22 The Cell Grid (and logic) 15:35 Testing the Grid 17:58 Final Grid Build 22:31 It's Done (and testing)
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Building Conway's Game of Life in Transport Tycoon
The Worst Guide To Factorio
The Worst Guide To Factorio
Factorio is a base-building-automate-'em-up and has allowed me to automate my descent into madness. This is a net negative for the biters. Thumbnail art (and some used in the video) by: https://x.com/HideBoar Watch me struggle live: https://www.twitch.tv/connorconquers Random train of thought: https://twitter.com/PenthosGaming Check out people who actually know what they're doing: @Trupen @DoshDoshington @Nilaus @ambiguousamphibian @martincitopants Music Used: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNgoQLurSH-Yyntx7vBqE9aOQ2iT2Vb7g&si=-cz36E8mMfb090s0 RE lead dev: DO NOT HARASS ANYONE. No one gets bullied into believing they're in the wrong; they, more often than not, just double down. I learned about their behavior halfway through producing this, and had I known from the start, this video probably would have been about Satisfactory or something similar. All this to say, while I do love this game, it's somewhat tainted by this knowledge, and I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending it without acknowledging it. Queertorio: https://github.com/ConnorConquers/Queertorio SECTIONS 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - The Basics 7:02 - Just Build More 11:05 - Get Me Out Of Here 15:47 - THE FACTORY MUST GROW 19:19 - Conclusion
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The Worst Guide To Factorio
curl -v https://google.com
curl -v https://google.com
The little men in your computer do this every time you open google.com 0:00 Shell 0:11 DNS Lookup 0:21 TCP Connect 0:30 TLS Negotiation 1:14 Guitar Solo 1:23 X509 Certificate Validation 2:20 HTTP/2 Session Open & HTTP/2 Client Request 2:30 HTTP/2 Server Response Headers 2:49 Instrumental Bridge 3:00 HTTP/2 Server Response Body 3:21 HTTP/2 Session Close & TCP Socket Close
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curl -v https://google.com
Ted Kravitz DRIVES an Alpine F1 car! 🏎️
Ted Kravitz DRIVES an Alpine F1 car! 🏎️
► Follow Sky Sports F1 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skysportsf1 ► Subscribe to Sky Sports F1: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyF1 ► Watch Sky Sports: https://bit.ly/BuySkySports In partnership with Alpine, Sky Sports' Ted Kravitz learns what it takes to become an F1 driver and drives an Alpine F1 car for the first time. #f1 #skysportsf1 #formula1 ► Formula One highlights: https://bit.ly/F1Highlights24 ► Sky Sports F1 Podcast: https://bit.ly/SkySportsF1Podcast ► Ted's Notebook: https://bit.ly/TedsNotebook More from Sky Sports on YouTube: ► Sky Sports: http://bit.ly/SkySportsSub ► Sky Sports Boxing: http://bit.ly/SSBoxingSub ► Sky Sports Cricket: http://bit.ly/SubscribeSkyCricket ► Sky Sports Darts: https://bit.ly/SubSkySportsDarts ► Sky Sports Football: http://bit.ly/SSFootballSub ► Sky Sports Golf: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsGolf ► Sky Sports News: http://bit.ly/SkySportsNewsSub ► Sky Sports Premier League: https://bit.ly/SubscribeSkySportsPL ► Sky Sports Retro: http://bit.ly/SkySportsRetroSub ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skysportsf1 ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skysportsf1 ► TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skysportsf1 ► X: https://x.com/SkySportsF1 ► Website: https://www.skysports.com ► To enquire about licensing Sky Sports content, you can find out more here: https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/news/31754/11434270/license-sky-sports-footage
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Ted Kravitz DRIVES an Alpine F1 car! 🏎️
Booting Sun SPARC Servers
Booting Sun SPARC Servers
In early 2022 I got several Sun SPARC servers for free off of a FreeCycle ad: I was recently called out for not providing any sort of update on those devices… so here we go!
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Booting Sun SPARC Servers
I can't believe this ride is only 1 hour away from Sydney
I can't believe this ride is only 1 hour away from Sydney
Sick of riding all the same routes in Sydney? Three Gorges, West Head, Akuna Bay and Royal National Park? We were thinking the same thing and organised a ride a bit further away to switch it up. This is the first in a new series we are doing called our 'drive by' series, where we pick a location we have to drive to and try and do a fun/challenging ride. It ended up being a really fun adventure. I hope you enjoy the video :) Like what I do and want to support me? You can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/joshuakwanu ___________________________________________________________________________ Like what you are seeing? I'm using the Insta 360 Ace Pro. You can purchase one here using this link: https://www.insta360.com/sal/ace-pro?utm_term=INRD2K6 Thinking of another Insta360 product? Insta360 Go 3S: https://www.insta360.com/sal/go-3s?utm_term=INRD2K6 Insta360 X4: https://www.insta360.com/sal/x4?utm_term=INRD2K6 ___________________________________________________________________________ Personal: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh.kwan/ Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/31132875 Pastries.CC: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/pastries.cc Pastries.CC Website: https://pastries.cc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pastries.cc/ Strava Club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/PastriesCC
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I can't believe this ride is only 1 hour away from Sydney
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
Press dots to check.The referenced Tedium article:https://tedium.co/2021/01/20/on-battery-power-meter-history/other links 'n' stuffTechnology Connections on ...
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Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
Dookie Demastered
Dookie Demastered
Green Day's landmark album, demastered in 15 formats. The way it was never meant to be heard.
·dookiedemastered.com·
Dookie Demastered
Old Pi Gets a New Life
Old Pi Gets a New Life
I’d love to tell you the story of a project I’ve been pecking away at, for the past few days. It’s a long, winding path, so I recommend brewing a cup of your...
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Old Pi Gets a New Life
From Garage To Glory - The Story of Grinding Gear Games
From Garage To Glory - The Story of Grinding Gear Games
Greetings Gamers! Today we'll be taking a look at the very cool origin story of the company Grinding Gear Games and their fantastic game, Path of Exile. I'll break down the top 3 ingredients I think allowed for their continued success and we'll wrap it up with some Path of Exile 2 history/hype! This is the result of weeks of internet sleuthing to find some of these old clips and pictures etc. I hope it does the company and the team any justice and that you all enjoy this piece of nostalgia, I thoroughly enjoyed putting it together :) Thanks for watching! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and let me know how I can improve. Full GDC Talk by Chris Wilson: ► https://youtu.be/tmuy9fyNUjY Chris Wilson's Insane MTG Misprint Collection: ► https://youtu.be/JugtZj2lRBc Path of Exile 2's Latest Trailer: ► https://youtu.be/eYaSU9UCe0w Join my Discord If you want to chat! ► https://discord.gg/aQ9BevvH6K Here you'll find talk and banter about the game(s) I'm playing at the time, food, pets, hobbies and everything in between. Join my growing internet fam and come nerd out with us! My Socials: ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/gavryngaming ► Reddit: u/GavrynGaming ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gavryngaming ✉️ Business Inquiries: ✉️ gavryngaming@gmail.com 🔗 Chapters: 🔗 00:00 Introduction 01:33 The Origin Story 02:06 How Chris Wilson & Johnathan Rogers Met 03:40 How They Met Erik Olofsson 05:19 Bringing In Brian Weissman 06:52 GGG's Design Pillars 08:07 The Pre-Release Story 08:47 2010 Announcement Trailer Start 09:46 2010 Announcement Trailer End 10:58 2013 1.0 Release Trailer Start 12:21 2013 1.0 Release Trailer End 12:47 Recipe For Success 13:01 Ingredient #1 15:47 Ingredient #2 19:15 Ingredient #3 23:09 The Path of Exile 2 Story 26:45 Conclusion
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From Garage To Glory - The Story of Grinding Gear Games
We played real life Geoguessr all over Sydney!
We played real life Geoguessr all over Sydney!
In this Jetlag-inspired video, Jason, Abiram and Rowan drove me all over Sydney, blindfolded, and made me guess where I was. That is, we played real life Geo...
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We played real life Geoguessr all over Sydney!