707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and Won ($100M+)

Podcast: The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan · Foundr Media

Opublikowano: 2026-09-17

Athan Didaskalou had bet everything on a one-year-old suitcase brand called July. Then Covid wiped out travel and nearly took the business with it. What happened next turned it into a nine-figure global company. Athan came from the agency world and sold out of two businesses to go all in; his co-founder Richard Li brought the manufacturing and supply chain muscle. They chose luggage precisely because it was hard to make and dominated by a single global player. They survived lockdown on drink bottles, kept every team member, and came out the other side with a two-year head start...