Sam Priestley's Business Portfolio
Current Businesses
Eastfield Sporting Goods
Eastfield is a high-end table tennis focused sporting goods brand.
ARTICLE: Here I go through every step it took to create our table tennis brand.
Palio ETT Table Tennis Bats
Palio ETT is the UK’s bestselling table tennis brand and is mainly sold through Amazon FBA.
Pipehouse Gin
Pipehouse Gin is an award-winning flavoured craft gin. All the flavour without the sweetness.
ARTICLE: My diary on how to create a craft gin business on a budget
Consulting & Business Coaching
Hire Sam as a consultant for $200 an hour.
Books
Expert in a Year: The Ultimate Table Tennis Challenge– A book about my year playing table tennis every single day.
The Empopath – A book I wrote and published in three days under the pen name Sam Piper in order to test out self-publishing and print-on-demand.
Previous Businesses
The Wren Coffee Shop
Voted the best new coffee shop in London 2014.
ARTICLE: Here I go through the details of how and why we founded a coffee shop.
ETF Fintech Startup
A tech startup I built and sold in under a year.
Professional Gambling
Sam’s first career was a professional gambler where he made over £1 million pounds. Mainly in arbitrage.
Expert In A Year
The Expert in Year project originated as a year challenge where Sam played table tennis every day for a year with the aim to go from a complete novice to one of the top players in the country. The final video was viewed 12 million times and the challenge was featured on the BBC, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, DIGG and Mashable.
