Junk In Your Trunks

How I Started A $300K Business Selling Swim Trunks Made From Trash

September 19th, 2019
Evan Waldenberg
$25K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
Junk In Your Trunks
from New York, New York, USA
started June 2018
$25,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
market size
$1.56B
avg revenue (monthly)
$19.2K
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
subscription
best tools
Shopify, Instagram, Facebook
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
11 Tips
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platform
email
shipping
reviews
social media
payments
crowdfunding
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hey there I’m Evan Waldenberg, the founder of Junk in your Trunks. Clothing from trash for the wonderful piece of garbage you are. We’re making swim trunks out of recycled plastic bottles.

We’re not the first brand working with these kinds of materials, but we felt that all the brands out there working with sustainable materials tended to cater to surfer bros and tree huggers so we set out to make something for a different type of guy, something for the guy who may treat his body like trash a few times a week, but wouldn’t mind treating the world a little bit better.

Up to about $25k/mo but rapidly growing, we just haven’t had the inventory to keep up with demand lately. We’re at a really interesting time because our company was/is still in its infancy and we managed to land an investment from Barstool Sports on a new shark-tank style show they debuted recently called The Big Brain. Gave up a decent amount of equity (the final deal doesn’t look exactly like what was discussed on the show, I’m happy with where we landed but gotta stay 🤐) but it really changed what the future of this...

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