Update Number One
I knew if I circulated the preliminary business strategy to all of the Death Bomb Company participants that we would receive great suggestions and insights.
I would like to share the feedback I received from John Ball, Dennis Gray and Tom Blond, Predictably, their vision is in line with their previous occupations. As a world class tax attorney, John has a legal and regulatory bend. Dennis is focused on the engineering and production side. Tom is pure sales. He aims to maximize our payback in the shortest possible time frame. His strategy is absolutely brilliant.
John Ball.
With a keen eye on the numbers, John noticed that our selling price of $125 a pound is slightly higher than Jimmy Dean’s price of $6 per pound. I replied that we were within $120 and that should not be a real problem. John responded.
“Agree. And, they probably use underage, illegal, migrants in their processing plants. How else could they sell their product so cheap? Should we report them to the FDA and INS?”
Dennis Gray.
Hey Mike,
I loved the analysis. I can now see why you went into accounting. And all this time I thought it was because you liked the calculator to attach to your belt.
Upon review of your analysis, I wanted to point out that your garage refrigerator isn’t large enough to hold 10 million pounds of pork butt, or finished sausage, or combination thereof. I tried converting pounds to kilos and got the same result. Upon second review, I see that 10 million pounds is a quarterly number and realized that even Costco cannot supply that many pork butts all at once each quarter.
Based on Costco’s limitations, I worked this quarterly number down to a weekly basis (ya know 10,000,000 divided by 91 day (days in a quarter) times 7 days (days in a week)). This resulted in 769,231 pounds per week. A much more duable number but one that is still too high for one refrigerator.
If we were to add two refrigerators to your garage, do you think Susan would mind leaving her car out every night?
Tom Blond.
“Sounds reasonable to me. Our first customers need to be Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg with the pitch that they, singlehandedly, can solve world hunger. One sale and we shut it down and fly off to Paris.”
It is easy to see why Tom was one of the most successful software sales professionals in the country. Cut the chat. Straight to the end game. A clear simple strategy that achieves every objective. The first workday of 2025 Tom and I will be setting up meetings with Jeff, Elon, and Mark.
I’d like to thank everyone for their incredible feedback. More updates to follow.
Michael Jay Sinelli, EHQ
Exalted Hind Quarter
A couple of comments on some early efforts at marketing. The death bomb sausage factory T-shirts are extremely popular in the northeast Florida market. The name immediately invites conversation and interest in the product. I think that the T-shirt line will produce an interesting revenue stream. Our timing is impeccable in that the end of the election season leaves us with a large pool of door knockers who we could easily convert into engaging salespersons for this product.