Before the $15 million in sales, there was a single-car garage, sleepless nights, and a paper jogger.
Yes, a paper jogger.
In this clip, Haley Swank shares what the earliest days of building FLÎKR Fire actually looked like.
Setting alarms throughout the night. Making their own molds. Mixing concrete with a commercial mixer. Producing just three units at a time before figuring out how to make nine.
No outside investors. No sophisticated manufacturing operation. Just resourcefulness, determination, and a willingness to figure things out.
That scrappy operation eventually became a nationally distributed brand with more than 2,400 retail locations.
It's a powerful reminder that extraordinary businesses often begin with extraordinarily humble resources.
Watch the clip.
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