The Money Mondays
How to Start a Company Without Quitting Your Job - Kim Perell 🏢 EP124
Mon, 02 Jun 2025
In this episode of Money Mondays, Kim Perell shares how she built a $235M company without quitting her day job. From starting at her kitchen table to investing in over 100 startups, Kim breaks down what it really takes to launch a business while working full-time—and when it’s actually time to make the leap.---Kim Perell is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author known for turning startups into multi-million dollar businesses. She began her journey by launching a company from her kitchen table, eventually selling it for $235 million. With over 100 startup investments and 50+ exits, Kim has become a leading voice in entrepreneurship and early-stage investing. She's also the co-founder of the wellness brand Juny and a passionate advocate for helping others launch and scale businesses—without needing to quit their day job too soon.---Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇Dropout Teen Mom to MILLIONAIRE Network Marketing Queen: https://youtu.be/mqrfRyg66J4How Ashley Rogers Built A $9M Brand In Just 4 Years: https://youtu.be/l0GPQqe_luUThe Secret to Turning Your Passion Into a Million Dollar Empire w/ Danielle White: https://youtu.be/0dlLoC2TUGwLisa Bilyeu's BEST Secrets for Building a BILLION Dollar Empire: https://youtu.be/_YMVbeMdQwUWatch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k---The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money.If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1Dan Fleyshman,The Money MondaysLearn more here: https://themoneymondays.comWatch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6kLet’s Connect...Website: https://themoneymondays.comPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondaysLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondaysFB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/
What is Kim Perell's background in entrepreneurship?
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for having me. So excited to see you today and just love being with you, Dan. So, Two Minute Bio. Okay, well, let's see. I started my first company at my kitchen table in Hawaii and then I sold that five years later. I sold my last company for 235 million to Singapore Telecom, worked at a publicly traded company out of Singapore for almost six years.
Invested as you said probably in close to 150 companies. I know but it had at least 50 exits still good vintages to come Yes, so I've invested and started young started young and I think honestly to your point. It's about giving back So being able to continue to pay that forward my grandma made a bet on me and I really you know Look to pay that forward.
That's awesome. Okay so on the make money side Why do you think it's important for entrepreneurs starting a company to make some money first before they ask investors for a check?
Yeah, you have to have proof of concept, product market fit. As an investor, and I invest a lot, if you just tell me you have a great dream, and I love a great dream, right? But if no one actually is willing to pay for that dream, it is a hobby. Right. And so you need to actually be out there and be like, Dan, are you going to buy my Juni? Because it is delicious.
It is only five calories, zero sugar. It's got ashwagandha and lion's mane and reishi mushroom. Dan, you're going to be like, Kim, I would pay five bucks for that. Good news, it's not five bucks, but... someone wants to buy.
Right. So the way I describe it is prove that someone cares. People vote with their wallets. And will it sell in the wild? Meaning, will this product, Junie, sell without Jay Shetty, without his wife, without Kim Perel? Will it sell on the shelf by itself when no one's around to talk about it?
And if it does, because they see the color or the name and then they taste the flavor and now they're addicted, that is investable, right? Proving that someone cares and it can sell when no one's around.
I totally agree. Well, we actually just had our first launch at Costco and it sold like hotcakes. So I feel like, you know, regardless of who's involved, it's a great drink. But I also think it's based on market opportunity. There's a big market opportunity. People are moving towards health and wellness and they're really focused on fitness. And the drink's perfect for that.
The best thing that could happen is someone buys and has no idea who you are and has no idea who Jay is and has no idea. They just like it. They see it. That's when you become $300 million, $500 million, $1 billion, $2 billion, $3 billion. We've seen some major exits recently, like some humongous $1.9 billion for another drink recently to Pepsi. There's some wild stuff happening.
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