He could have declared bankruptcy, He paid back every dollar instead - Tim Duggal

Take us all

the way back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'll take you back.

It feels like about 20,000 years ago.

Yeah.

Because I've been doing it for about 15 years.

And I started, I think, just with a passion to really buy and sell.

sort of mobile phones and tech gadgets and that sort of stuff.

I had no idea how I was gonna start and how I was gonna do it, but I just knew I had that passion.

I had an idea and like with all great ideas, I think it just comes from meeting someone else and someone looking at you in the eye and going, that's a really awesome idea.

And not necessarily being that confident about it, but just connecting with other people and then getting that courage from other people to go, you know what, maybe I will give this idea a crack.

I remember I was just about to start work in a call centre at NAB and I actually didn't get the job in the call centre.

And it was like, what am I going to do now? It was December.

So coming towards the start of the year, it was starting up to a new year and I thought I'm just going to give it a crack.

And this idea was to, I guess, you know, for people to trade in their old phone and so that they could go and get a quote online to sell their old phone and then they could get cash for it and that's how I was going to get into the business.

So that was my idea of going into, I guess, this business of buying and selling phones and starting it up online and sort of having that idea.

So...

Started January 1st and started with some Google ads and it pretty much just took off straight away.

But I think, and we're saying, you know, we had, we caught up last night for dinner.

Even going back to even at school, right? You had a, you're sort of buying and selling phones and you had, you've always had an entrepreneurial streak from an early, early, early stage.

I've

always had that mindset that I just wanted to buy and sell specifically products because I knew that if I could do that, it was the best way to sort of remove myself from the business.

I think like with some people, they go into a stream when they start a business of going, do I want to run a business selling products or do I want to run a business selling services? And I really knew that I wanted to start a business selling products because I knew it wasn't great with people, right? So I started and...

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