How I Bought A Multi-Million Dollar Egg Carton Business For $0

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
All right, what's up, it's Shaan, and I'm gonna start by reading you a tweet that I did a year ago. It says, I have a new hero, and her name is Sarah Moore. And the reason that Sarah Moore is my hero, and somebody that you've probably never heard of, is because Sarah Moore was in her young 20s, she has no money, no experience.
The only thing she owned in her life was her car, a RAV4.
And this crazy hustle story of how she basically decided, I'm going to buy a business, even though I got nothing, nothing to my name. And she spends a year searching through 100,000 businesses, and she finds this niche business called eggcartons.com.
You literally, this guy sells the carton that your eggs come in. And she bought this multimillion dollar business with all debt. So she put no money in because she didn't have any money. And so, and then she had grown it a bunch since then. And I just said, I think this is like a $20 million business that this woman bought and like, wow, what a hustler. So I told this hustle story on the podcast and it kind of went viral. It blew up. Nobody had ever heard about this story before.
She had done no interviews. She has no social media. She was like a ghost. And honestly, I didn't even know if it was true because it's one of these stories that's too good to be true.
Here's this girl who comes from absolutely nothing. She talks about this in the interview. Like she literally had no parents. She was in and out of jail as a kid. Like she was just trouble.
And then she has this turning point in her life that gave me goosebumps. She ends up paying somebody to take the SATs. So she gets into college. She hustles her way through college, finds a way to buy this business.
And it's this amazing success story. And two things happen. One, the story kind of went viral. She said that like Netflix and others reached out to her after the episode went live, that people started showing up on her doorstep, asking her for advice on buying a business. And like honestly, it was kind of bad. Like it was too much. And please don't do that again, because she's like, dude, I'm trying to run a business. I don't even know you. You start telling my story. And this went crazy. And so a year later now, she's like, okay, at first I was kind of like, wow, this is crazy. Then I was kind of annoyed and scared. Like, is this going to mess up my business?
But then as she started to see the upside of telling her story and she was like, look, I still have no social media. I still do no interviews, but you kind of, you were very nice and you told my story. I will agree to come on and do one interview. And so she's like, after this, I'm one and done. I'm going to come on and I'm going to lay it all out there. I will tell you everything you want to know about buying a business, how I did it, what I did, the good and the bad, all the mistakes that I made.
I'll tell my kind of the life story part two, that's the sort of, you know, made for TV. It's unbelievable, her life story along the way. And she's like, I'm doing one interview and then that's it. I'm disappearing after that. And she did not disappoint. We just finished the recording.
It's one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. She is somebody that I really admire and I don't use that term lightly. Like she is really a hustler, super genuine and her stories is frankly incredible. Like it's not often I have goosebumps during an episode of a podcast. So enjoy this episode with Sarah Moore.
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