Jason Junod
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first heard Dec 2024
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Jason Juno is the owner and founder of a skincare company called Bare Botanics. He sells scrubs and body brushes, and two of his products he imports from China. When did you start thinking about tariffs?
I started really thinking about them probably over the summer when Trump was campaigning. And he loved talking about tariffs, particularly tariffs from China.
Trump believes tariffs will bring jobs and manufacturing back to the U.S. But American business owners are wondering what impact these tariffs could have on their bottom line. Like Jason.
I said there's a real chance here of tariffs going up. And yeah, we would be totally impacted.
So on election night, Jason nervously watched the returns at a friend's place.
And the countdown is on to the very first... Once it was clear to Jason that Donald Trump was on track to win, he knew he had to do something right then. What did you do?
I started messaging my suppliers. We got a short timeline here. There's not a lot of time for thinking. And I knew that it'd be morning in China and they would be responsive. And so I started messaging to place a big order.
Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Leinbaugh. It's Tuesday, December 3rd. Coming up on the show, how one American business is getting ahead of Trump's tariffs.
Bear Botanics isn't Jason Juno's first business. He's been an entrepreneur from a young age.
I have been selling online since I was the age of 10, actually.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What were you doing at 10?
Oh, God. I was flipping iPod Touches on eBay. I had figured out I could make some money doing that, again, at the age of 10. And it was pretty good for a fifth grader until PayPal figured out I was 10 as well and shut me down.
Jason says he also invented his own products to sell, like a travel pillow, which is now buried somewhere under his bed.
My parents called them my schemes. I would call them my endeavors back in the day.
Did you guys disagree on that at that age?
It was more like, why aren't you outside playing? And I'm like, I'm building an empire.
I love that. How did you go from flipping iPods on eBay to deciding skincare was your product?
I graduated college, I took a corporate job, and it was around this time that I used to get really bad eczema during the winter, mainly on my hands. And I was like, you know, I'm going to start trying some new products just for me. So I was looking and I came across a bunch of different scrubs from a bunch of different brands. And I was really excited.
I'm like, this could really work for my eczema. And so I think I bought like four or five, six different brands. And to be honest with you, I hated them.
Jason looked at these scrubs, and he saw a business opportunity. He began experimenting with natural ingredients to make his own products, and he roped in his friends to test them.
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