EVERYONE SAID HE’D GONE MENTAL.
HE AGREED.
A kid from Devonport, Tasmania, who will not stop. Fifteen businesses failed. Three now turn a profit. This is the file.
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THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.
- COUNT 01Starting his first business at 13: mowing his nan’s whole unit complex, door to door.GUILTY.
- COUNT 02Turning down the safe job and moving to the furthest city on the map to build a bigger life.GUILTY.
- COUNT 03Wearing a suit to an office where nobody wore a suit.GUILTY.
- COUNT 04Setting a million-dollar target after being told to be realistic. Hit $987,634. The next year, $2.3 million.GUILTY.
- COUNT 05Starting a fashion label from nothing. Its sunglasses ended up at the Grammys.GUILTY.
- COUNT 06Getting promoted seven times in nine years. Named one of the top 100 sales executives in the world at DHL.GUILTY.
- COUNT 07Starting 18 businesses. Fifteen failed. Three turn a profit. So far.GUILTY. REPEATEDLY.
In his own words
“It’s pretty hard to beat someone who just won’t stop.”
“Every door you knock on creates another opportunity. Not every door says yes.”
“You don’t become capable and then build. You build, and become capable.”
“Attention is not the same thing as a business.”
“I’m backing myself before I know if it works.”
I’m going to prove you effing wrong.“I’M GOING TO PROVE YOU WRONG.”
His answer when the million-dollar target was called unrealistic.
WHAT HE BUILT INSTEAD OF LISTENING.
EXHIBIT A
THE BOX
Reads like a warning label. Fits like a pocket.
EXHIBIT B
THE STRIP
One strip. One dose. No water, no queue, no cup.
EXHIBIT C
THE HORSE
Rearing, not running. The only animal on the pack.
He tested oral strips on himself for months. Then prototypes, suppliers, packaging, and all of it again, until the strip was thin enough to forget and the box was loud enough to remember.
MARCUS BLENKHORN.
FOUNDER. STILL GOING.
Currently writing a book about backing yourself before you know it works.
- FROM
- Tasmania. Then Brisbane. Then Melbourne
- FIRST BUSINESS
- Lawn mowing, door to door
- UNIVERSITY
- Skipped. Took the 47,465-mistake degree instead
- BUSINESSES
- 18 started. 15 failed. 3 profitable
- LOW POINT
- $150K in the hole
- LAPTOP DOWN
- Never. Marcus Bot V2 takes the night shift
- CHARGE
- Gone mental. Most of his life
- PLEA
- Guilty, in a productive way
IN A PRODUCTIVE WAY.
Case closed. Now it’s your turn.
