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Pure Innovation with Ric Kostick, Co-Founder and CEO of 100% Pure

21/09/2021
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In This Episode You’ll Hear About:

  • How Ric grew up in a family of doctors but had no interest in medicine so instead went into finance and business
  • How he started selling his products online while the internet was still new
  • What led to the creation of the company after he and his co-founder both had struggles with their own companies
  • How challenges and losing a huge account led to a pivot that became a success in a new channel
  • What advice he has for a healthy founding team and why good communication among the Founders and partners is not only imperative, but absolutely essential
  • What brought them to open up market in China, how it has been a unique strategy, and why that fits in with their overall mission
  • What it has been like to open up their own retail stores, what lessons Ric has learned as a result, and what they have coming up in the future
  • Why he thinks being a lifelong learner is a part of being successful and making a difference in the world around you

To Find Out More:

100percentpure.com

Quotes:

“Why are all these companies putting these ingredients into the product? Because it makes them cheaper and it makes them stable.”

“We led a lot of the innovations in the natural side of the industry. A lot of the preservatives you see in clean products today are ones we were the first to use in beauty.”

“It's really an art when you're making a natural product. You have to be very, very precise on things to get it to mix extremely well.” 

“There are so many challenges as an entrepreneur, it's very rewarding, too, but you definitely go through a lot and I don't think it's easy.”

“When you're working with partners, it's hard not to blame each other. You have to really ensure that you blame processes, not people.”

“Trust is the most important thing. Our fastest years of growth are the years where we trusted each other the most, the three founders. Those were our fastest years when we grew 30-40 percent.”

“It's our mission to improve the lives of six billion people and animals. China has a billion people and even more magnitude of animals on top of it. So I felt like we really need to stay true to our mission. And if we're really trying to stay true to our mission, we need to be where the people are around the world…”

“I use China as kind of the model of eCommerce of the future because they bypassed the whole desktop computer phase. They went straight to mobile because nobody has desktops at home in China that I know of, so they bypassed desktop, went to mobile, and their eCommerce is extremely advanced because of that.”

“The store of the future, the retail associates, are content creators.”

“You have to be okay with failure. It can't bother you. It's got to be like water off your back. Nothing. Move on.”

“Another key element of success is having a very strong network. If I need something or need access to someone, I can get it because of my strong network.”

“Some people felt like brick and mortar is dead. I don't feel that way. I feel like you need both to be successful.”

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