"Should I Buy The Machine?"

0:00 I sell beef protein chips. We do about a million. Want to be doing about a million a month. We've been in the supply chain purgatory for a while trying to find a manufacturer. So, we finally found one. He has a proprietary machine that can spit out a tray of our product every 12 seconds. >> How much does the machine cost? Uh the machine cost about 400,000. I didn't think about buying it from Yeah. And you could buy it used. How big are your dreams for this business? Do you want this to be a big brand?

0:24 >> Yeah, absolutely. Well, if you want it to be a big brand, then owning the manufacturing for something that is novel or different is probably a good idea. So, right now you have a double sitting in front of you that you think you can hit with the guy's existing capacity. Yeah. How many months of that do you need in order to save up enough to buy the machine with terms and lending? Ooh, I mean, not that Not that many?

0:43 >> Not that many. Yeah. >> Okay. So, I mean, I think that you're spelling out kind of the plan. Like I would call up a couple of really good machine guys and roll in um and check the machine out. And be like, all right, how proprietary is this? Cuz you might find out it's like, you know, a $75,000 machine that has, you know, $25,000 add-on that they're pretending is $400,000. Because if you're again, like we we have to take this to a natural extreme. Let's say we hit that. Okay, then we have this machine. And then we build it out. It's like, well, we're going to need more machines. And that's the only thing that differentiates us from everybody else, then it's like that actually is a huge point of leverage for the business. So, knowing everything about how that thing works is everything.