KLOS Guitars

How We Invented A Carbon Fiber Guitar And Grew To $1M/Year

July 2nd, 2019
Adam Klosowiak
Founder, KLOS Guitars
$100K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
13
Employees
KLOS Guitars
from Provo, Utah, USA
started May 2015
$100,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
13
Employees
market size
$585M
avg revenue (monthly)
$51.5K
starting costs
$18.9K
gross margin
43%
time to build
270 days
average product price
$600
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SEO
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Full time
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Adam Klosowiak and I’m the cofounder and CEO of KLOS Guitars, a company that builds durable, portable, and great sounding sleek carbon fiber guitars and ukuleles.

KLOS Guitars flagship product is our travel guitar, which launched in 2015. The travel guitar is a mini-dreadnought shape and features a carbon fiber body and soundboard with a mahogany neck. The guitar can be folded in half by removing the neck, and our portable gig bag can also be folded to be converted into a backpack. Since the launch of the travel guitar, we have also come out with a slightly smaller than dreadnought guitar and a ukulele.

KLOS Guitars launched on Kickstarter in June of 2015 and did $33k in sales that year. Now, four years later, we’ve shipped to over 70 countries and all 50 states and we’re doing over $100k per month in sales mostly on...

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