Above the Fold

Turning sports trading cards into a $5M business, and all the beer news

June 12, 2023 Cincinnati Business Courier Season 1 Episode 34
Turning sports trading cards into a $5M business, and all the beer news
Above the Fold
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Above the Fold
Turning sports trading cards into a $5M business, and all the beer news
Jun 12, 2023 Season 1 Episode 34
Cincinnati Business Courier

Andy and special guest host Meg Erpenbeck, the Courier's digital editor, talk about MadTree Brewing's third location, a Cincinnati startup's Mach 5 space plane, plans to fill vacant storefronts in OTR, the zoo's $680 million impact and how the Blackburn sisters are shaking up the Bengals.

Interview starts at (25:56). Greg Rouse turned a pandemic hobby into a $5 million business. His sons launched Braxton Brewing Co., where he is also a co-founder, but amid Covid-19 shutdowns, Rouse and eldest son Jake rekindled their love of sports trading cards and started "breaking" packs of cards online, a combination of ecommerce and live-streaming on social media. From that grew Hit Seekers, which opened a brick-and-mortar shop last year and has grown revenue 4,228% since its founding in 2020.

Above the Fold is a podcast by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Show Notes

Andy and special guest host Meg Erpenbeck, the Courier's digital editor, talk about MadTree Brewing's third location, a Cincinnati startup's Mach 5 space plane, plans to fill vacant storefronts in OTR, the zoo's $680 million impact and how the Blackburn sisters are shaking up the Bengals.

Interview starts at (25:56). Greg Rouse turned a pandemic hobby into a $5 million business. His sons launched Braxton Brewing Co., where he is also a co-founder, but amid Covid-19 shutdowns, Rouse and eldest son Jake rekindled their love of sports trading cards and started "breaking" packs of cards online, a combination of ecommerce and live-streaming on social media. From that grew Hit Seekers, which opened a brick-and-mortar shop last year and has grown revenue 4,228% since its founding in 2020.

Above the Fold is a podcast by the Cincinnati Business Courier.