My Business Is Getting Bombed. What Do I Do? — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, hi Alex. I have a closing design and
2. 0:02manufacturing business in Russia that
3. 0:04has been distributed via Wildberries,
4. 0:05which is like Amazon here. Ukraine has
5. 0:07been bombing the distribution warehouses
6. 0:09and we have had huge losses. I'm torn
7. 0:12because I have a family in Ukraine and
8. 0:14don't support the war. I don't think my
9. 0:15business can hold on in Russia. By the
10. 0:17way, whatever you guys are doing right
11. 0:18now, it's flashing like like blue every
12. 0:212 seconds, so I can't see what the
13. 0:22question is.
14. 0:24But I don't know how to get out either.
15. 0:26So, what do I do? It's still doing this.
16. 0:28I don't know.
17. 0:30Uh what do you do? Okay, so
18. 0:33you don't know how you can get out.
19. 0:35Dude, you're in a war-torn country.
20. 0:36That's very tough. I'm very sorry.
21. 0:38Um
22. 0:43>> [sighs]
23. 0:45>> Honestly,
24. 0:47this feels less like a business question
25. 0:48and more like a life question, you know,
26. 0:50because these I would say war and
27. 0:51violence tend to be outside of the
28. 0:53normal
29. 0:54um
30. 0:56elements of business because typically
31. 0:58I'd say most normal I'll say normal
32. 1:00businesses happen in more modernized and
33. 1:03stable societies, which is like why war
34. 1:05is bad for bad for business um because
35. 1:08these things are completely unforeseen.
36. 1:09There's really nothing you can do about
37. 1:10it.
38. 1:11Um
39. 1:13I would say this,
40. 1:15do not judge your ability based on your
41. 1:17existing circumstances.
42. 1:19I think that it would make sense for
43. 1:21you. The fact that you've been able to
44. 1:23do as well as you have and continue to
45. 1:25hold on despite literally getting
46. 1:27bombed.
47. 1:28Um
48. 1:29kudos to you and I'm sorry that you're
49. 1:30going through that.
50. 1:32If it were me,
51. 1:34I would make every I would use every
52. 1:36ounce of effort I could to get out and
53. 1:38go to a place uh that was safer. I'm
54. 1:40assuming that
55. 1:44The thing is your skill your skill set
56. 1:46transfers and you might be able to just
57. 1:48sell
58. 1:50direct to consumer in a non-war-torn
59. 1:53country and as long as you have your
60. 1:54laptop and your connection to the
61. 1:55internet, um
62. 1:57I think that's probably the approach I
63. 1:58would do because I don't think that
64. 1:59these stability's going to happen
65. 2:01on a timeline that is going to match
66. 2:03your goals.
67. 2:04And so I would probably try and shift my
68. 2:06business to where it is stable. I know
69. 2:08that's a radical
70. 2:09uh, answer, but you were also in a
71. 2:11radical time. So, that's my honest
72. 2:13answer. Otherwise, hold on there, man.
73. 2:16Um, wish you the best. If you like this
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85. 2:34appreciate you and enjoy.