He quit Xerox the same day to sell suits. Now he's Houston's Suit Boss, with a $35,000 suit sold.

Adam Ross is the founder of Adam Ross Custom in Houston, known around town as "the Suit Boss." He started out cold-calling for Xerox and walked out the day a tailor offered him a job in custom clothing. He launched his own company on January 1, 2020, with no savings, weeks before COVID shut down the mills he buys from. Today his shop sees 8 to 10 clients a day, dresses pro athletes and Houston's business crowd, and has sold a single suit for about $35,000.

In this episode you'll learn:
• The real difference between a $500, a $2,000 and a $10,000 suit, and why a bespoke one takes over half a million hand stitches
• How he kept a two-month-old business alive through COVID by altering people's closets in their homes for 8 months
• The $35,000 suit with 24-karat gold woven in, cut from a fabric only about 25 people on Earth could wear
• How he went from $7,000 in the bank and a $10,000 check due to a $75,000 walk-in the next morning
• Why everyone on his team has to vote yes before a new clothier can join

Follow the guest:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamrossthesuitboss/
Website: https://adamrosscustom.com/
Phone: (713) 221-4217

⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:07 How Did a Xerox Salesman Become Houston's "Suit Boss"?
13:09 How Do You Leave Your Boss and Start Your Own Company?
21:41 What Was His Biggest Mistake in Year One?
26:46 $500 vs $2,000 vs $10,000 Suits: What's the Difference?
36:11 What's the Most Expensive Suit He's Ever Sold?
38:07 How Do You Get Someone to Spend $10K on a Suit?
46:08 How Did He Land His First NFL Player?
54:57 When Do You Stop Doing Everything Yourself?
1:07:21 What Nobody Warns You About Building a Business
1:10:57 Did He Ever Want to Quit?
1:17:33 When Did He Stop Drinking?
1:21:03 Rapid-Fire Questions
1:31:11 Where to Find Adam Ross Custom

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