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What makes this especially interesting to me… is that he 1. Traveled from Fort Lauderdale to Palo Alto to find venture capitalist… 2. He started out as a struggling affililate marketer and 3. His peddles pet food and supplies. 4. He was (is) tenacious an unyielding in his efforts. 5. His company is headquartered in Southern Florida – Dania Beach. The fact that PetSmart is buying his website Chewy.com for billions is just the icing on the cake for me. 🙂 If you are interested in this sort of thing, I urge you read about him on Forbes – The Man Who Found
Gold in dog food. Ryan Cohen is a really neat guy…I urge you to follow him if you don’t already. It’s strange he doesn’t have a page on Wikpedia (that I was going to link to) but his company Chewy does… So here is Chewey’s link.
It’s not about the money, money is only a tool. It’s about the good you can do in the world and the lives you can change with the money you’ve earned.
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
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PetSmart has agreed to make the biggest e-commerce acquisition in history, putting a deal in place to snatch up fast-growing pet food and product site Chewy.com for $3.35 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than […]