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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 then I think on the same day or maybe a day apart, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk both said they were on some variant of a Zempik.

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

And that was kind of transformative in the demand sense.

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

And we were like well set up for that.

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

And so I think we then went,

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

100 to 270 in a year and then 270 to 600 in a year.

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

So you went like rough, rough, 30, 100, 270.

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

So let's say 30, 100, 100, 100, like stagnation just out of COVID.

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

And then the 270, 600 jump.

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

Jeez.

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

Yeah, I think there are a couple of, yeah, I mean, definitely among the faster growing ones.

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

I think like, interestingly, like through the launch of Milcron, that was a really, really fast, like obviously a bit of a cash incinerator, but really, really fast growth and a huge amount of operational complexity.

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

I think like one of the missed stories in that is like how well they did from a complexity perspective through a really difficult time, just less of a, like more of a cash management problem.

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

um and then uh i think heidi in australia is kind of growing really quickly as well but yeah like i mean very very fast so i guess like managing it is it's kind of an exercise in prioritization to be honest like a lot of stuff doesn't get done and you kind of get comfortable in the fact that those things aren't getting done and it's a little bit of a willingness to kill your darlings at some point you know like we we kind of gave up on the other businesses even though they were good businesses like it's quite hard to

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

let go of a business that's $25 million a year growing 70% year-on-year that's quite profitable.

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

It's hard to do that.

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

That would be hard.

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

People dream of a business like that.

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

You've got to be able to do it, right?

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

So I think that's one thing.

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

The other thing that I accidentally kind of landed on but has been important is being almost not overcomplicating things.