- 41 minutes 37 secondsHow Getting Back to Basics Turned 437 Into an 8-Figure Brand
Hyla Nayeri co-founded 437, a bootstrapped activewear brand, into an eight-figure business— and she did it by simplifying ruthlessly, betting on organic social and influencer marketing, and protecting a culture that includes a four-day workweek.
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11 June 2026, 4:30 am - 41 minutes 5 secondsHow Giving Away Free Knowledge Built a Multimillion-Dollar Car Parts Business
Sean Reyes noticed that every shock absorber looks identical from the outside—and none of the automotive brands detail what’s actually inside. So he built ShockSurplus, an education-first automotive parts company that turned that information gap into a bootstrapped, eight-figure business.
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9 June 2026, 4:30 am - 43 minutes 59 secondsHow Bette Bentley Built Skimpies Into a No. 1 TikTok Brand Without Spending a Dollar on Paid Ads
Former comedy writer Bette Bentley built Skimpies—the world’s first liner designed specifically for leggings—into a number one TikTok brand entirely through organic livestreams, bypassing paid ads by treating the platform like an interactive group chat. This innovative founder breaks down how she embraced raw authenticity to collapse the traditional sales funnel, handle extreme burnout, and turn a grueling six-month streaming schedule into a $60,000 warehouse livestream.
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4 June 2026, 4:30 am - 45 minutes 58 secondsHow Fly By Jing Turned Chili Crisp Into an 8-Figure Brand
When Jing Gao launched Fly By Jing, she wasn’'t just selling chili crisp—she was challenging a century-old story about the value of Chinese food. Starting from an underground supper club and a scrappy Kickstarter, she built a brand now found in Target, Walmart, and Whole Foods that has inspired a generation of Asian food founders.
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2 June 2026, 4:30 am - 24 minutes 15 seconds"How Do You Know When to Pivot?" Here's What 13 Businesses Actually Did
We brought together 14 founders across 13 businesses building on Shopify and asked every single one the same question: How do you know when it's time to pivot?
We've put together the playbook for the hardest decisions to make in business—the leap, the kill, the walk-away, and the quiet voice you almost ignored.
Featuring Catherine Goetze (Physical Phones), Melanie Bender (LORE), Jing Gao (Fly By Jing), AC Hampton (Supreme Ecom), Melissa Palmer (OSEA), Kevin and Jin Chon (Coop Sleep Goods), Aishwarya Iyer (Brightland), Matt Hassett (Loftie), Vy Nguyen (Avocado Green), Drew Scott (Lone Fox), Sean Reyes (Shock Surplus), Carmen Dianne and Kara Still (Prosperity Market), and Sara Sugarman (Lulu and Georgia).
For more: https://utm.io/upFkv28 May 2026, 4:30 am - 49 minutes 38 secondsHow Figs Built a Billion-Dollar Brand for the People Saving Lives
Trina Spear left Wall Street to build a billion dollar brand serving the 18 million health care workers no one else was designing for. Figs started out selling scrubs on sidewalks and grew into a NYSE-listed, direct-to-consumer powerhouse.
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26 May 2026, 4:30 am - 40 minutes 20 secondsHow One Founder Took on the Gray Hair Industry and Won With Science, Not Hype
Arey founder Allison Conrad turned an overlooked beauty category into a science-backed business, with a clinical study to prove it. Hear how she built a defensible brand, from securing a patent to mapping a retail strategy designed around when customers are actually ready to buy.
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21 May 2026, 4:30 am - 27 minutes 50 secondsThe Sleep Brand Founders That Refused To Rest Until the Product Was Perfect
Kevin and Jin Chon cut open a pillow, found carpet padding inside, and spent 13 years fixing it. They built Coop Sleep Goods into a nearly nine-figure brand by spending more on materials, staying focused on one product, and trusting that a better pillow would market itself.
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19 May 2026, 4:30 am - 36 minutes 51 secondsThe Scrappy Outreach Strategy Behind Candier's $14 Million Retail Empire
Krysten Kauder built Candier—a bold, irreverent candle brand with names like “Girl, You Need to Calm the F Down”—into a $14 million business stocked at Target, Whole Foods, and Ulta, and she did it without a PR firm, sales team, or single networking event.
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14 May 2026, 4:30 am - 50 minutes 15 secondsHow an AI Expert Built the Most Analog Product of 2026
Before the screen-time backlash hit the mainstream, Cat Goetze was already building an analog antidote. Her brand Physical Phones—Bluetooth landlines designed to replace smartphone habits—generated $800K in its first year and turned a personal frustration into a full-blown cultural movement.
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12 May 2026, 4:30 am - 38 minutes 1 secondWhy This $5 Million Skin Care CEO Chooses Reddit Over Influencers
She built Virtue Labs into a $50M+ hair care brand. Now Melisse Shaban is CEO of Aramore — a biotech skincare company backed by peer-reviewed NAD+ research — and she's throwing out the beauty playbook.
No influencer deals. No aspirational campaigns. She's sending free product to Reddit strangers, asking for the honest truth, and betting that real science doesn't need hype to win.
In this episode:
- Why she left a board seat to run one more brand
- How a 28-day Reddit trial beat any influencer campaign
- The products she cut from her own line — and why
- What 30 years at Aveda, the Body Shop, and Fekkai taught her about what's broken in beauty
- Why she hates the word "aging" and refuses to sell fear
For more on Aramore https://www.shopify.com/blog/aramore-reddit-skincare-science?utm_campaign=shopifymasters&utm_medium=youtube&utm_source=podcast
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