A Pizza Bagel Business Owner Makes $20K Per Month, But He Had To Leave His Six-Figure Tech Job First: 'I Sold My Equity Back To My Previous Company'

Jacob Cooper started Pizza Bagel NYC in February, and it's present bringing successful much than $20,000 per month. Cooper started the concern soon aft leaving his six-figure tech occupation without immoderate acquisition successful the edifice industry. He besides went all-in connected the startup and raised the archetypal funds by tapping into his equity.

"I sold my equity backmost to my erstwhile company," Cooper told CNBC.

Cooper shared what goes into operating a pizza bagel concern successful New York City and however helium grew it truthful quickly.

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Cooper told CNBC that helium was the CTO of a startup that helium started successful assemblage earlier launching Pizza Bagel NYC. That presumption didn't thatch him astir commercialized kitchens, but it gave him a batch of acquisition with managing radical and moving with teams.

"I managed engineers, I wrote a ton of code, I reviewed code, and I met with different teams," helium said to CNBC.

However, the spark faded aft doing the aforesaid happening for astir a decade. He said that helium wasn't arsenic excited and that helium and the CEO were warring a batch toward the end.

"We some benignant of said, ‘This is not truly working,'" helium said.

He admitted that the archetypal fewer weeks of being unemployed were difficult, but helium yet came up with the thought to commencement Pizza Bagel NYC and ran with it. He said that helium made $120,000 per twelvemonth astatine his erstwhile tech job.

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Pizza Bagel NYC made $3,000 successful gross successful February and jumped up to $4,000 successful March. After a slowdown successful April, the concern got a batch of momentum successful May erstwhile helium got a car.

"I yet got a car, which meant I could deed mode much events without relying connected the subway oregon transportation services, truthful we scaled up the pop-ups and catering gigs large time,” helium said.

Pizza Bagel NYC brought successful $6,000 successful May, rallied to $13,000 successful August, and saw a large surge successful September, which was the company's archetypal $20,000 month. However, that's not each profit. Cooper said helium brought location $5,500 successful September aft accounting for payroll, kitchen, food, lawsuit fees, and different expenses.

Cooper said that astir of the company's gross comes from pop-ups, catering, and farmers' markets. Weather plays a large relation successful full sales, arsenic helium told CNBC that the farmers' markets don't pull arsenic galore customers during acold and rainy days. He said that the concern made $22,800 successful October.