Dominating Consumer Niches

A New Zealand entrepreneur built multiple billion-dollar consumer goods companies through aggressive market entry and bootstrapped growth, starting with toys and expanding into diapers, hair care, and robotic house manufacturing.

Core Business Model:

  • Built most profitable toy company in the world
    • Started by selling door-to-door in New Zealand
    • Bootstrapped manufacturing by building own factory in China
    • Aggressively pursued retail buyers with daily contact until securing orders
    • Scaled to billions in revenue with $1B annual profit

Additional Venture Expansion:

  • Fastest Growing Diaper Company

    • Created Rascal Diapers and Million Moon (sold at Target)
    • Built while on medical leave with Crohn's disease
    • Scaled to hundreds of millions in revenue
  • Monday Hair Care

    • Fastest growing hair care company on TikTok
    • Direct-to-consumer model
  • Robotic House Manufacturing

    • Building world's largest factory (larger than Tesla's)
    • Focus on autonomous robot-built houses
    • Self-funded entire operation

Key Success Factors:

  • Completely bootstrapped - no outside investors
  • Family-owned business with brother
  • Extremely scrappy approach to building
  • Aggressive sales tactics (daily buyer contact)
  • Vertical integration (building own manufacturing)
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Shaan Puri

Host of MFM

Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.

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