A brief YouTube Shorts conversation (uploaded Jan 19, 2023) about whether people start businesses from passion or to make money. The speaker states they started for money to fund a desired lifestyle, not out of passion. They recount an anecdote about their father who sold fishing bait—apparently drop-shipped from Hungary—at high volume into UK high-street stores despite never fishing himself.
When you started your business, did you come up with the idea from like an area of passion or was you specifically looking for somewhere you think there's an open market way to make money? Not passion for sure. To answer the question, it was more money because I wanted to fund like lifestyle and be free and all that stuff. For my dad, like he actually was selling fishing bait into stores. He was basically drop shipping from Hungary or something, not touching the product and then shipping it into stores. I think he was doing the most units out any like fishing brand in the UK because it was on such volume into like high street stores. Never been fishing in his life.
