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Ben Rodier

Aug 13, 2026

17:34
Um, but, but, uh, tell us the founding story of Frontline.
17:38
I wasn't looking to leave Sales Floor.
17:40
Um, you know, it, it had been now 10 years in the 2022, 2023, uh, timeframe.
17:48
And, um, every once in a while I got an interesting phone call about a project or, or a company, whether it be to invest in or to advise in.
17:57
And I, I always, I, I really have always believed in singular focus.
18:01
So I, I'm not one of those people where you're, you'll find like all kinds of companies that I've invested or advised in.
18:08
Um, I, I, I really am a fan of singular focus.

27 MINS LATER

45:19
Seems like that would be a natural thing to tie in for more context here.
13:16
And if I'm not mistaken, the first part of the industry that really adopted this concept quickly was furniture, right? And if
13:28
you could share some success of what you've already seen.
13:31
Of course.
13:33
You know, home furnishings for me has always been an industry that's it's big enough to stand on its own.
13:39
But also from the outsider, it seems small as like a part of retail.
13:44
But when you think about how people first of all, everybody sleeps.
13:47
That's something that I've just come to appreciate in the last years.

7 MINS LATER

20:43
How have you overcome that? Is there an example of they were very hesitant and now they're all in?

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