Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Adam Thompson, founder of Friday Socks, a Calgary success story built on purposely mismatched socks.
Adam joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to talk about starting Friday Socks with $5,000 on a credit card, packing orders late at night in a one-bedroom condo, and building one of the coolest real businesses we’ve had on the show that now has socks in over 800 stores!!!
Then Adam opens up his idea list and immediately starts dropping bombs...bath bombs that is!
The guys dig into vitamin C bath bombs, Atomic Bath Bombs, Pop Top Plants, canned air, canned farts, fake “How’s My Driving?” complaint lines, pumpjack art, weight-loss belts, chef home-cooking content, five-gallon indoor gardens, and interactive finger-puppet books.
Also:
- Friday Socks ships millions of pairs and is in roughly 800 stores
- Adam explains why mismatched socks are harder to design than people think
- Philippe discovers more than he ever expected to know about sock construction
- Shubh tries to make everyone buy Friday Socks before supporting any other local company
- Adam reveals he used to do stand-up
- The guys debate whether every product should come in a can
- Multiple ideas receive perfect 75 salsa scores
- “Gardening as a Service” briefly becomes the business Shubh actually needs
- Shubh and Pip socks become dangerously possible
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