Dr. Forbes Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he walks up to me and he's like, I've never seen anybody like you.
You're amazing.
Can I buy 8,000 of these?
Launched my entire company in the UK.
By the way, the crazy thing about selling in the UK is the exchange rate was two to one.
I was selling them wholesale at retail prices.
I'm flying first class over to the UK going, this is so cool.
You're doing well.
HSN agrees to do this.
They begrudgingly on January 10, 2010, said, all right, we'll buy 5,000 units, like really begrudgingly.
37 minutes later, I sell 5,500 units, more than they even bought.
And then I've done a Today special.
The most I've sold on HSN was $64,000, $1.2 million for one day.
Wow.
And nobody wanted it.
Man.
Right?
Well, television certainly got its own bent on all that.
Okay.
So the story, crazy when you live this long, there's a little blip to the story that you haven't heard yet.