@theventure: This guy started a clothing brand in his backyard and built a $100 million empire 👕💰 In 2011, George Heaton is a graphic design student in Manchester when a teacher tells him the average graphic designer makes $40,000 a year. But George wants more. So instead of chasing a design job, he prints his own art onto blank t-shirts and sells them himself. His brother Mike joins a year later, and the two work out of their dad's backyard, running orders to the post office by hand. Growth is painfully slow. Represent doesn't make its first million in sales until 2014, and then five more years pass with almost no growth at all. In 2019, everything nearly ends when a trademark lawsuit lands on George's desk, threatening every dollar of profit the brand has ever made. ✓ Refuses to quit and rebuilds the whole business from scratch ✓ Obsesses over getting every single detail right this time ✓ Turns it into a brand worn by Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and Post Malone ✓ Grows it to millions of customers across the world Told designers make $40K → prints his own shirts instead → years of painfully slow growth → a lawsuit nearly ends it → rebuilds from scratch → over $100M in annual sales. Sometimes the breakthrough only comes after you rebuild the thing that almost destroyed you. What would you rebuild from the ground up instead of walking away from? 🤔 #Business #Represent #Fashion #Success #Entrepreneur @george @Represent Clo @247Represent @Cadence US

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