@theanatomyofadream: A $10,000 order turned into $1.5 million. In two weeks. CEO of GenZEO, Charlotte Trecartin, got a message from a Target buyer on LinkedIn. Went in for a meeting. The buyer said let's do an online test. Two weeks later, actually, let's do in-store. Two weeks after that, actually, we're going nationwide. 17 products. All stores. She was 24 years old. Working out of 400 square feet. With half an employee. And she didn't have the money to buy the product. In retail, you front everything. You manufacture it, you package it, you ship it to Target, and then they don't pay you for three months. She needed several hundred thousand dollars she didn't have. She called a friend from college who once jokingly said "if you ever need money, let me know." He said no. She cried herself to sleep two nights in a row and almost told Target she couldn't do it. But the buyer pushed the timeline. The friend came through. She found a 20,000 sq ft warehouse, posted on every local Facebook group for workers, ran four shifts a day from 6am to 10pm with over 70 warehouse workers, and shipped the order on time. She was 24.

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