Parker Olson

So early on, I built a Twitter account to like 750,000 followers.

And one day it got hacked and I lost access to it for like two months and then was able to regain access through this like complicated Twitter process.

But I remember waking up that morning and being like, oh my God, like somebody hacked.

And I thought like that was gonna like make my life.

You know, I thought my life was like made.

So that was maybe one.

And then the other one,

is for my last business, Forage, which was like a health food startup.

You know, again, it was a vitamin concept.

Big learnings.

CPG is really hard.

I moved into... So I lived out of a tent for two years in my backyard in Seattle.

And I threw up my bed and we used the bedroom as like our office, which was, I think, just...

awesome but probably more notably after that stint I moved into a pop-up camper van and I drove around the country for about a year and I would stop at grocery headquarters and try and sell our product in and I remember one day like I was carrying a lot of product in the van but it was really hot like in the south and like

One day I like dropped off a ton of samples to like 60 locations of stores and they were all spoiled.

Like, like had gone like literally bad and were like, like, like smelt like throw up.

And I remember like my heart sinking.

And then a week later.

I was at a thrift store.

I bought something and I got bedbugs in the van from this thing I thrifted.