ORLANDO, Fla. – This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corie Murray interviews Chris Hinton, founder of Beard Godz, a company specializing in premium grooming products for men.
Hinton told Corie about how trading in stocks led to dealing with locs, per se.
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“During the pandemic, it’s nothing going on, everybody’s in the house doing nothing. So, you know, everybody started going into stocks, everybody started trying to learn different things. So my boy hit me up and said, ‘Hey man, we gotta do something that can make us money while we sleep. So with that, I was thinking, Chris, what do you do every day? What do you do every day, naturally?’ And I was like, ‘Man, my beard!’” Hinton said.
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Though Hinton had already put some money into stocks, he told Corie about how he sold them all when he realized they might not pay out very well in the long run.
“Everybody was doing stocks and things like that. I had these stocks and I knew all the stocks at that time, they were about to go down. So I was like, ‘Let me just take a temporary loss,’ right? ‘I’m going to take this money and I’m going to do this beard thing,’” Hinton said. “Let me tell you this. Let’s say, AMC was at $22 at the time, right? AMC is still at $5. I sold all my stocks at maybe $22 and that’s what gave me a couple thousand dollars to start this business, and the stocks still haven’t gone up yet. So, yeah, that’s how I started my company, through selling all my stocks, because I knew they were going to go down.”
From oils to shampoos, wooden picks to beard balms, Hinton told Corie without pulling hairs that he’s proud to run a company that sells products which work.
Hear the full interview and more in Season 5, Episode 3 of “Black Men Sundays.”
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