Hall of fame — no. 8

Spot & Tango

Est. 2019

Russell Breuer's delivery network was him — on the 5 a.m. subway, holding the boxes.

Spot & Tango in 2019SPOT & TANGO · 2019
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Drag the handle — Spot & Tango, 20192026.

I'll wake up at five o'clock in the morning. I'll take the subway. I'll drop them off on her doorstep.Russell Breuer, The Product Market Fit Show

The ugly part. No factory, no logistics. Breuer cooked in a rented incubator kitchen for eight hours with a small team, packed the meals in pink butcher paper, froze them, and hand-delivered the first orders himself — riding the NYC subway at dawn to drop boxes on customers' doorsteps.

What they shipped anyway. It wasn't a P&L, it was proof of demand. Real people paid for fresh dog food and asked for more, which was all the signal he needed to go build the machine behind it.

Now. A direct-to-consumer fresh-pet-food company doing more than $100M a year.

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