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Veteran and CEO Says Business, Not Bullets, Key To Winning Afghan War with Matt Griffin of CombatFlipFlops EP 242
18 Apr 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 is CombatFlipFlops and what do they 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 top. Five and six million.
Chapter 3: How did CombatFlipFlops achieve $300,000 in sales in 2015?
He is hell-bent on global domination.
Chapter 4: What social cause does CombatFlipFlops support?
We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark. And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner of the 100 bucks is Jose Avila. He is a 17-year-old that doesn't want to go to college and he wants to start his own business.
Chapter 5: How did Matt Griffin fund the startup of CombatFlipFlops?
For your chance to win 100 bucks just like Jose every Monday morning, simply subscribe to this podcast on iTunes right now and then text the word Nathan to 33444 to prove that you did it. Coming up tomorrow morning, Top Tribe, I grill Jason Hartman. I asked him the revenue numbers.
Chapter 6: What are the revenue goals for CombatFlipFlops in 2016?
He says he's a multimillionaire and all this online. And he answered, Nathan, I don't know how much I made in 2015. It's too complicated. Are you kidding me? Okay, Top Tribe, good morning. Our guest today is Matt Griffin. He was a former Ranger. He is current, I'm just quoting this. Actually, I'll let him say it. He's current HMFIC at Combat Flip Flops.
Chapter 7: How does CombatFlipFlops drive traffic to their website?
He'll articulate what that means. And he's going to be a future nomad. Matt, are you ready to take us to the
I am ready to take you to the top.
All right, give it to us because I know you're just you're dying. What does HMFIC stand for?
Chapter 8: What is the impact of educating women in conflict areas?
It is head motherfucker in charge. So Matt came to us through, I believe, Andrea, right? I believe so.
Yeah. Yep.
Andrea Lake. We had her on. She is, uh, has six businesses. She sold over 20 million stickers, multimillionaire doing very, very well. And, uh, her episode for those of those, for those people that want context on Matt and his company can go listen to episode two 14. That's Nathan, like a.com forward slash the top two 14 to learn from Andrea.
So Matt, talk, talk us about the, tell us about the business and, uh, and exactly what it does.
So we say we make cool stuff in dangerous places. And essentially what we do is we, as veterans travel back to war zones or conflict areas, we find entrepreneurs that are making cool stuff. And then we teach them how to make fashion and lifestyle products to sell in the U S and then we grow their businesses from there. So we started that in 2012 and now it's kind of taken off. It's fun.
And so the business is called combat flip flops and, and walk us through in 2015, Matt, how much sales did you guys do?
In 2015, we did over $300,000 in sales.
Okay. And how much that was just revenue? How much did you guys actually make profit on that?
Yeah, we, we just broke even on that. So that was, it was a big growth year for us, but this year we're already capping 400 and change. And we're in the first week of March.
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