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Chris Koerner

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4955 total appearances

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The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

I did the same thing for a video like a month ago and it was no different.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

I was, it was just cringe.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

It was...

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

It was bad.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

Yeah, so I was a student at the University of Alabama and I had learned about another business that was fixing iPhones from a retail location.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And they were bragging to the local news that they were making 20,000 a month.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And I'd been reading these business books.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

I'd been like looking for my thing to start.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And for whatever reason, I said, I can do that.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

I can fix phones.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And so right around the same time, one of my classmates gave me a broken iPhone and I saw like a flyer on the bulletin board for a guy that fixed iPhones.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And so I went to his dorm room and, um, I had him fix my iPhone in front of me and I asked him all kinds of questions.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And then I went and signed a five-year lease on, on a store.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

So I went to all my previous bosses, um,

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

Because I didn't grow up around wealthy people.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

My parents had no money.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

And I basically said, hey, Danny, I want to start this business fixing iPhones.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

This was 2010.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

So iPhones were still very new.

The Iced Coffee Hour
Side Hustle King: The Most Profitable Business You’ve NEVER Heard Of! | Chris Koerner

No one thought it was viable.