Why you shouldn’t feel guilty about getting into the PPE space

Robby Berthume, Berthume & Co, Covid Recession, eCommerce, Non-Tech, Physical Product

I have to be honest, even me, someone who loves entrepreneurs, had mixed feelings when I saw founders capitalizing on COVID in the early days.

For example, I saw someone pivot to start selling hand sanitizer. I thought it was a slimey move until I NEEDED hand sanitizer. It made me realize that these people who were filling in the gaps where the big companies fell short were really doing us a service.

Well that’s what today’s guest did as early as February. Robby Berthume is the founder of Berthume & Co, which sells hard-to-find items to deal with the COVID-19 crisis including face masks, hand sanitizer, PPE, and social distancing decals.

Robby Berthume

Berthume & Co

Robby Berthume is the founder of Berthume & Co, which sells hard-to-find items to deal with the COVID-19 crisis including face masks, hand sanitizer, PPE, and social distancing decals.

Andrew Warner 0:04
Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner and I’m a little ashamed. I’m the founder of mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I keep introducing this as the place where it’s where entrepreneurs, where ambitious upstart can feel that they’ve got a home and still, I remember going on Facebook soon after COVID-19 hit and seeing one of my past guests was making hand sanitizer at some brewery I guess, and selling it and I thought, this is just a little too slimy. He’s trying to like profit off of this then what does he know about sanitizer? What’s he doing? And then I couldn’t find sanitizer. And, and it made me very uncomfortable when we’d go out. I remember on one of my runs, I touched something and I must have been listening to some podcasts about COVID-19 just touching something on my run made me think I can’t do I can’t let this hand touch my...

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