Eggcartons.com
Sarah Moore's path to acquiring Eggcartons.com was unconventional. Coming from a troubled background and making it to Harvard Business School, she was invited by Shaan Puri to share her "insane story" of buying a multi-million dollar business with $0 and no experience. The acquisition itself became a case study in creative deal-making and scrappy growth tactics.
Rather than starting from zero, Sarah identified an existing business opportunity and pursued it aggressively. Her approach centered on understanding why buying made sense, then executing a methodical six-step acquisition process: scraping databases, ignoring industry conventions, finding free workforce solutions, conducting mass outreach, prioritizing simplicity over innovation, and closing the deal.
After acquiring the business, Sarah employed aggressive growth tactics that would become her signature. She used bulk email outreach to reach potential customers, leveraged database scraping to identify prospects, and famously posted creative Craigslist ads to recruit interns as a free workforce. Rather than trying to innovate the egg carton industry, she focused on operational excellence and customer acquisition at scale. Her willingness to be "a human billboard" and her ability to simplify rather than complicate the business model proved critical to scaling.
Sarah's story challenges conventional startup wisdom. Instead of raising venture capital or building a technical product, she focused on acquisition, mass outreach (cold-email style tactics), and leveraging creative, low-cost labor solutions. The episode notes suggest her biggest learning came from mistakes in the first year, and her success hinged on not "counting herself out" despite lacking industry experience.
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