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How This Harvard MBA Bought A $50 Million Dollar Business For $0

From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2023 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Sarah Moore, a Harvard MBA, bought EggCartons.com for $0 down by using 75% bank debt and a 25% seller’s note, with no personal collateral except a 2012 Rav4. She ran a solo PE firm from a library with 50+ unpaid Craigslist interns who sifted through 400,000+ private companies over 1.5 years.

Key insights

  • Moore’s “PE firm” had no fund, no money, and her office was a school library; she used 50+ unpaid Craigslist interns who needed fake IDs to enter the library because they didn’t attend the school.
  • She targeted a business that could serve as its own collateral for a bank loan because she had no collateral except her 2012 Rav4.
  • The business was chosen for being profitable since 2001, having a high barrier to entry via the domain name and 100+ similar domains (including misspellings), and being simple enough for someone with

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