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He's done $6.5 million in Amazon sales. He quit a six-figure finance job in New York to do this full-time. And his thesis is that once you get to a certain point, an Amazon business becomes a logistics company. The margin isn't just in sourcing. It's in the supply chain.
Sean Kaupp (@Stacksonsr) co-founded ShipVision, uses $1 million in private capital instead of credit cards, and says AWD saves him $2,500 to $7,000 a month in placement fees. Today we get into why he thinks wholesale has the smallest moat, why OA sellers doing $14 million a month prove the model scales, how FTL shipping cuts check-in time from three weeks to under 24 hours, and the order cancellation prevention stack most sellers don't know about.
Chapters:
00:00 - $6.5M on Amazon and the Logistics Thesis
02:01 - COVID Masks to $180K Months on Shopify (Then $5K)
05:00 - Suspended Before His First Sale (How He Got Back In)
07:00 - Home Depot Gloves and the Amazon Lightbulb Moment
10:00 - What ShipVision Actually Does (And Why He Built It)
13:30 - $16K/Month for Unlimited Prep and Shipping
15:00 - Why He Threw Away Every Box in the Warehouse
18:56 - AWD: How He Skips $7K/Month in Placement Fees
21:00 - Buy 1,000 Units, Not 100 (The Buy Box Network Effect)
24:00 - $1M in Private Capital (Not Credit Cards, Not SBA)
27:29 - Fundraising Is a Core Entrepreneurial Skill
32:00 - "Wholesale Has the Smallest Moat"
35:49 - "The Real Money Is in the Hidden Prices"
41:08 - Why Walmart Is Not the Escape Hatch You Think
46:00 - The Order Cancellation Prevention Stack
48:00 - Stop Dreaming About Exiting. Start Compounding.
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