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In this special episode of Growth Mavericks, host Adam Callinan flips the mic on himself — re-airing his guest interview from EcommerceFuel
with Andrew Youderian. Together, they unpack a decade of lessons in building, selling, and reinventing how founders think about business, risk, and profitability.
Adam shares how fatherhood reshaped his approach to risk and time, why working 70-hour weeks crushed his soul, and how he and his partner built BottleKeeper to $60M in total sales with only six people - before selling the company.
They dive deep into the real math of profitability - why most e-commerce brands are guessing with their ad budgets, how discounting destroys margin, and how Adam’s latest SaaS company, Pentane.com
, helps founders finally connect marketing spend with financial performance.
Expect sharp insights on:
- Building a company lean enough to survive anything
- The hidden math behind ad spend, discounts, and contribution margin
- How AI and automation could have reduced BottleKeeper’s team from six to one
- The importance of performance coaching after an acquisition
- Why doing physically hard things—like ultramarathons—translates to resilience in business
Episode Highlights:
- (03:00) How being a dad completely changed Adam’s view on risk and ambition
- (08:00) Running BottleKeeper to $60M with just six employees
- (09:30) How AI could have made BottleKeeper even leaner
- (19:30) The birth of Pentane — and why connecting ad spend with financial data changes everything
- (33:00) Why most founders are guessing at their Black Friday ad budgets
- (40:00) How performance coaching created the space that led to Pentane
- (47:00) Why doing “hard things” physically rewires how you handle business challenges
Listen to Explore:
🎧 Growth Mavericks Podcast
🔥 EcommerceFuel with Andrew Youderian
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