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Alex Smereczniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
758 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Like, all right, we're starting to work here a little bit.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So he moved down, quit his job, broke up with his girlfriend at the time, broke the lease on his apartment.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

He's now married and has a kid with her and everything's great.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

But at the time... Did you get invited to the wedding after you almost ruined her entire life?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Did you get invited to the wedding?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

She hates when I bring this up.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I can imagine she would.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Sorry, Alyssa.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I can imagine she would.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So he moved down and we got after, we had five guys living in a three bedroom, my place, three bedroom condo.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It was my mattress, Dan's next to ours.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And then we have this other friend that we kind of, we say we saved a little bit.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

I mean, he grew up in good family, but comes from a family of alcoholics and like kind of wasn't going anywhere in small town.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

He was one of those guys that was going to stay in Red Wing forever.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And we're like, we're going to start this thing, come down.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

He's,

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

one of the hardest workers I know is very good with hourly employees and like frontline, um, operations.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So he came down as our first driver.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

He eventually managed five laundromat locations for us and 80 per 80 person team.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And, um, so that's something that always personally.