Music festivals gave me hearing loss. My best friend and I started making earplugs, and it's now a multimillion-dollar business.
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Music festivals gave me hearing loss. My best friend and I started making earplugs, and it's now a multimillion-dollar business.
After developing tinnitus and hearing loss, Bob Verlaat cofounded Hears, a company designing stylish earplugs for music fans.
TL;DRAI
Verlaat created Hears with designer earplugs and exclusive sound-filtering tech; $7M year-one sales by solving the 'ugly, uncomfortable earplug' problem. For CTO/managers: product-market fit + B2B partnerships = exponential scaling; global remote reduces talent costs.
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