2 Commas: The $multi-million exit show with Josh Comrie
Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 16 segments
Dom Sutton hired three general managers to run the business he built. Two didn't work out, and he owns most of the reasons why. Dom started Pumpt with his last paycheck, running cold calls from a…
Josh ComrieHost
On the continuum of, like, a visionary entrepreneur through to desperate dad at the other end, where- whereabouts do you reckon you might have been?
Um, yeah, I'd come out of a s- y- you know the story, but I came out of a, a separation.
Had two very young kids, had quite a decent bill, uh, post-tax bill for child support and, and maintenance, and, um, I was on a pretty good wicket as a sales manager for the company I was working for, but, um, uh, facing, uh, starting again, um, it just looked like I was just never gonna get ahead, so I had to...
I always wanted to start, have my own business, but a sort of a push-pull scenario where I just thought, "Now's the time." 'Cause I went to my boss and said, "Hey, what's the chances of a pay rise?" And he's like, "Not, not right now." Um, so, um, I could have gone somewhere else.
I didn't wanna leave the kids, so that was the time to start my own business, take a bigger risk, and, um, yeah, I could have earned nothing, but it turned out, um, I, I did okay.
You were up against it as well, right? I remember the, um, kind of situation that you, your living situation-
... and there was some real kind of, you know, c- can you share some of those gritty kind of details about where the kids were staying when they were with you and, you know, kind of how that was?
My, my, um, now 25-year-old, he was the younger of the two boys I had at the time, and he was still in nappies, and so, but I didn't have enough money to pay for my own place 'cause I was cleaned out by the separation, and, um, so I was really on my, yeah, living paycheck to paycheck, and so I didn't really wanna spend all my money, plus the sup- child support, um, I didn't wanna spend all my money on buy- paying for a, like a three-bedroom place, so I just went and found a, a child-friendly flatmate, um-
On the continuum of, like, a visionary entrepreneur through to desperate dad at the other end, where- whereabouts do you reckon you might have been?
Um, yeah, I'd come out of a s- y- you know the story, but I came out of a, a separation.
Had two very young kids, had quite a decent bill, uh, post-tax bill for child support and, and maintenance, and, um, I was on a pretty good wicket as a sales manager for the company I was working for, but, um, uh, facing, uh, starting again, um, it just looked like I was just never gonna get ahead, so I had to...
I always wanted to start, have my own business, but a sort of a push-pull scenario where I just thought, "Now's the time." 'Cause I went to my boss and said, "Hey, what's the chances of a pay rise?" And he's like, "Not, not right now." Um, so, um, I could have gone somewhere else.
I didn't wanna leave the kids, so that was the time to start my own business, take a bigger risk, and, um, yeah, I could have earned nothing, but it turned out, um, I, I did okay.
You were up against it as well, right? I remember the, um, kind of situation that you, your living situation-
... and there was some real kind of, you know, c- can you share some of those gritty kind of details about where the kids were staying when they were with you and, you know, kind of how that was?
My, my, um, now 25-year-old, he was the younger of the two boys I had at the time, and he was still in nappies, and so, but I didn't have enough money to pay for my own place 'cause I was cleaned out by the separation, and, um, so I was really on my, yeah, living paycheck to paycheck, and so I didn't really wanna spend all my money, plus the sup- child support, um, I didn't wanna spend all my money on buy- paying for a, like a three-bedroom place, so I just went and found a, a child-friendly flatmate, um-
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