Segment: I Sold iPhones with Zero Capital - Building Trust Got Me Stock to Sell and Keep Profits

Segment: I Sold iPhones with Zero Capital - Building Trust Got Me Stock to Sell and Keep Profits

April 23, 2026 · 11 min

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The episode discusses the importance of trust in entrepreneurship and how the host built his business from selling phone cases to iPhones while still in school.

From selling phone cases without owning a phone to building multiple income streams while still in school, and why the brutal truth about making money is that you need to be trusted because coming by money is a very difficult thing to do and if somebody has set up a business and you want to start yours by feeding from theirs you need to build that kind of trust for somebody to willingly give you something to go and sell and bring the capital back which is exactly how the journey started taking stock from someone's shop selling it and returning the profit before moving into iPhones where a campus friend gave one iPhone 7 on trust and even though the profit was just 300 cedis because of not knowing how to navigate the phone it was enough to keep moving forward, the young entrepreneur who manages a mother's fashion school handling sales marketing and social media analytics while still carrying phone cases in the bag and in the car ready to sell at any moment because at every point in your life the money you started with might not be enough to carry you to the top so you need to grow and even in this studio there are phone cases ready to go because leaving an imprint in someone's…

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Host: Derrick Abaitey

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Organizations: mother's fashion school

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