Sarah Moore, a Harvard student under 30, bought eggcartons.com with zero down payment and all debt, after evaluating 100,000 businesses from her car. The story went viral on Twitter and split the internet between believers and skeptics accusing her of fraud, prompting the podcast team to fact-check the claim.
I have a new hero and her name is Sarah Moore. At under 30 years old, she had no money, no experience, and the biggest asset was her car. She spent 1 year hunting through like 100,000 businesses to find one to buy, and she bought a multimillion-dollar business called eggcartons.com with all debt, no cash down. And so I told that story on the podcast, and basically the 2 reactions were, wow, that's incredible, so awesome, you go girl. And on the other side, it was, I'm calling bullshit, no way. And then you text us the other day, you were like, Hey, somebody's like contacting a bunch of my old interns. And it was like our researcher fact-checking just to make sure we don't look like idiots that like we're putting somebody on who— did this actually happen?
Yes, it started blowing up on Twitter and everyone in my company was talking about it. And my interns were like, Sarah, you need to go out there and defend yourself. And then I started worrying about my company. That was my concern, that people were going to think this was fake and this was somehow going to snowball in a negative direction. And all I cared about was preserve the business. Don't fuck with eggcartons.com.
