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Alex Smereczniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
758 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

eventually so we were early days doing the laundry in our apartment at first doing the delivery in our own vehicles of some of the stories and things we saw and yeah we did all of our apartment at first i grew that quickly started going to laundromats and saying hey we're gonna you know john we're gonna bring you thousands of pounds a week they all laughed that we were keep in mind we're 23 24 years old at the time we're like we're bringing thousands of pounds a week because we did this in college we want a discount right and they were like

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

Yeah, sure.

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

I'll give you this.

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

If you can hit this tier, we blew through the tier in like two and a half weeks.

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

And they were, how are you doing?

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

I've been running this laundromat for 10 years.

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

I have no delivery business, no walk-in.

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

How are you doing this?

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

We eventually outgrew them.

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

They couldn't handle the...

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

scale that we were bringing them because laundromats are typically semi-absentee, not that many employees.

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

They now needed five, 10, 15, 20 employees to handle the volume we were bringing.

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

And they're not operators.

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

They're more landlords, I'd say then.

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

So were they doing the wash, rinse, fold for you?

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

Yes.

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

We were out.

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

Yes.

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

Okay.

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

Let's talk about that.