Journey To $100 Million

Erik used to co-own a bakery with his wife. She worked there full time and Erik worked there after working his full time job, doing mostly back office work. He'd come up with business ideas and would implement them at the bakery. He started having the staff ship pound cakes across the country, and were able to charge a premium for shipping them. The problem was that the employees had to actually package the cakes and ship them which lead to more work for them, and sometimes they didn't know what to do. Selling pound cakes online worked out well enough, and Erik decided to ship their chocolate covered strawberries as well. Once he started shipping strawberries though, he started getting complaints right away. He couldn't figure out why the product was getting damaged in transit. Finally, Erik asked a customer to send a picture of the strawberries. The strawberries were completely destroyed by the time they arrived to the customer. It was a problem with the shipping and the strawberries, and the fragile choc