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Tim Doyle

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Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And it went a little bit too well.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And we got, I think it was like,

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

Definitely 10,000, definitely 10,000, but maybe more, maybe more.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And the problem with recycling sex toys, which we hadn't really thought through is like they're silicon and they have a battery.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And so the battery has to be taken out of them.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And then you have to figure out how to recycle the silicon, which is hard to do.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And so we couldn't find a solution to that that wasn't like extraordinarily expensive.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

So we just built, well, I mean, built is too kind of a word.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

We allowed a mountain to form in our warehouse.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And so it was just there.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And so we didn't really know what to do.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And then, so what we would ask people in interviews, like just to kind of throw them a little bit, it was like, Hey, we have this problem.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

How would you solve it?

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

And so we would have like the dildo mountain question that flowed through interviews for quite a while.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

There was some really novel suggestions.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

Most of the suggestions interestingly end up being about like doing some kind of art exhibition with them.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

But I think that,

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

So I'm not sure that was ever really going to work, but, um, we ended up finding someone who was willing to like dispose of one of our staff actually offered to take, offered to dispose of them himself for $20,000, which was, which was cheaper than where the quotes we were getting, but not cheaper enough to be like, yeah, we ended up getting like some kind of bio waste company to come and deal with it.

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

Did Normal get spun out of Eucalyptus?

Equity Mates Investing Podcast
The Inside Story of Eucalyptus: Tim Doyle on Starting, Scaling and Selling a $1.6 billion business

Yeah.