SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
30,000 Pounds Per Day, Efficiency Machine Did $7m Last Year on Industrial Planks with Brian Adams of Rumber.com EP 196
08 Mar 2016
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base.
Chapter 2: What does Rumber Materials Inc do?
You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have. I'm now at $20,000 per talk. Five and six million.
Chapter 3: How did Brian Adams get involved with Rumber?
He is hell-bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.
Chapter 4: What challenges does Rumber face in manufacturing?
And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner of the 100 bucks is Dustin Goodwin. He's in the HR industry, specifically in the software as a service space, looking to increase his revenue.
Chapter 5: How does Rumber measure manufacturing performance?
So congratulations, Dustin. For your guys' chance to win 100 bucks every Monday on the show to build your idea, simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes now and then text the word Nathan to 33444. Again, text the word Nathan to 33444. Okay, Top Tribe, good morning to you. You're gonna enjoy our guest today.
His name is Brian Adams, and he is a serial entrepreneur in the great city of Houston, Texas. He's the founder and president of BA Interests. He started his first business while attending college at the University of Alabama, a pickup and delivery laundry service that catered to busy college students. Brian has been honored with numerous awards, including Inc.
30 Under 30 and Houston Business Journal 40 Under 40. He's now running the very successful Rumber. Brian, are you ready to take us to the top? Yes, sir. Let's do this. Let's do this. So first things first, you've had a lot of success. You're taking my call as you're running to your car. You're now situated in your car. Thank you for getting on. This is going to be fun. Tell us what Rumber does.
Rumber, I wish I could stay climbing to be the inventor of it. But it has been around for about 20 years. Takes recycled tires, recycled plastic, extrudes them together, and makes boards. Boards that are used on top of oil rigs, on the back of transportation trailers, by the cattle and livestock industry, and a lot with the U.S. military. Tell us how you wrestled the idea away from the inventor.
I imagine there's a great negotiation in there somewhere. So the guy who started the business, who invented it, he was part-time inventor, part-time crook. Wait, part-time crook or part-time crook, like robber? Crook, like robber. Oh, wow. And so what he did is that he created this product that was going to replace, typically, on the bottom of horse trailers, there are...
Wood floors and a rubber mat. His wife was a competitive barrel racer. And he got tired of cleaning out the trailer. So he said, I can figure out a better way to do this. And he did it. This is around businesses in Munster, Texas. That's like cattle country. So he went around to these cattle manufacturers, trailer manufacturers, said, I got a better flooring system.
After he did that, then he went around and raised some capital. How much? Oh, a couple hundred grand. And what year was this? 1991. Okay, so about the year I was born. Right, so 1991. He takes the capital and puts half of it in his pocket. And so the guy who put the most in, he was a very wealthy guy in Austin. Very, very well. Did he sue the hell out of them? Nope. That's not what he did.
He was the smarter guy than that. And so what he did is that he said, that's fine. And so he turned, he turned his investment in the debt and basically controlled the company. And there were some good people there working there and he let them live. And he created an opportunity for 22 years to, for about 50 people to have a job, and every year they got paid more than they did the year before.
It percolated is the word I use, meaning it existed, and it wouldn't be where it is today without that journey of people going out. Well, Brian, where do you come in? My comment is that the man who owns the business is very sick. This is the investor? This is the Austin investor? Yep. And so I had sold the business and I had a little scratch on my pocket.
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