Business Growth Strategies: How This Entrepreneur Achieved The Unimaginable
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we connect with Olivier Momma, the Founder of Ekster. Ekster is a smart wallet company with a simple mission: to make better gear for life on the move. In 2016, Oliver crowdfunded $1 million to create the next generation of wallets. Now, his company has 45 full-time employees across 11 countries – making bags, smartphone cases and travel gear.
Racking up a whopping 25 million EUR in revenue in 2021, there’s no question that Ekster is a success story for the ages. How did Oliver and his partner Rick Scharnigg achieve such a feat? Not without a ton of hard work and challenges…
Click play now to learn the lessons they learned launching and marketing such a unique business!
In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Olivier’s journey began with Ekster.
- Features that make Ekster’s wallets so unique and cutting-edge.
- The factors that skyrocketed Ekster’s revenue in the first year.
- Difficulties that Oliver had with Ekster, and how he overcame them.
You can find more information on Ekster by clicking here.
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| 0:00.0 | Forget frequently asked questions common sense common knowledge or Google how about advice from a real genius |
| 0:06.6 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified and licensed 5% go above beyond. They become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real Jesus. |
| 0:18.0 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, |
| 0:25.0 | sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 0:41.0 | now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.0 | My guest today is Oliver Moma. |
| 0:45.0 | He's the founder of a company called Exeter, EKSTER. |
| 0:50.0 | He was kind enough to send a couple of his smart wallets for me to check out and evaluate. |
| 0:54.3 | My son grabbed one immediately. |
| 0:56.3 | I think it's so cool. |
| 0:57.3 | And within 20 minutes told me about the RFID blocking and all the features of it. |
| 1:01.9 | So he was right on it. Thank you, Oliver, and welcome to the call. |
| 1:06.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Richard. Excited to chat. Well, tell me a little bit about your journey. How did you become an entrepreneur and start this company and then we'll get into what |
| 1:14.7 | extra is today definitely yeah so I'm from Amsterdam I was born in the city of Amsterdam and then we moved |
| 1:20.6 | abroad quite quickly so I spent my entire younger years moving from country to country every five years |
| 1:27.2 | So we we lived in Japan for eight we lived in Milan for five Barcelona a few years, and ended up in Hong Kong actually during my studies. |
| 1:36.7 | And while I was doing an internship in Hong Kong, I noticed that people were paying with their phones back in 2015 on like QR codes at the |
| 1:47.6 | market and I'd never seen this before. This was like completely new to me and |
| 1:51.0 | back in Holland people were so carrying fat buyfold |
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