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Ep 35: Bron Launsby, Slick City (opens the original)
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Bron Launsby built one of the fastest-growing franchise concepts in family entertainment — starting from a single slide bolted onto a trampoline park. Before Slick City Action Park, Bron owned Sky Zone franchises, and before that, he ran corporate retail and his own wholesale import business. In this episode, Bron talks about why he initially rejected the slide his now-business-partner pitched him (the suits were a dealbreaker), how talking to existing franchisees shaped every major decision he
Ep 34: Steven Guttman, UOVO (opens the original)
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Steve Guttman built UOVO — the storage company now trusted by top museums, auction houses, and fashion houses — out of a personal problem: he needed somewhere to store his own art collection. He talks with Dana Mauriello about the decades of real estate experience that got him there, why UOVO has stayed almost entirely self-funded, and how listening closely to clients turned one storage business into three: art, fashion, and wine. UOVO: https://uovo.com Dana's Newsletter: nationofdoers.substack.
Ep 33: Larry Kosilla, AMMO NYC (opens the original)
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Larry Kosilla quit a career on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange to wash cars — and built that decision into AMMO NYC, one of the most respected names in car care. In this episode, we dig into why he left finance, how he built his first car wash into a full sensory experience, the 2008 crash that taught him to never take on debt, and why he's stayed AMMO's only full-time employee — turning down offer after offer to keep the business built entirely on his own terms. AMMO NYC: https://ammonyc.c
Ep 32: Kevin Prince, Heads in the Sky (opens the original)
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Kevin Prince spent 15 years building marketing and social strategy at places like NBC, CBS, Gawker Media, and Netflix, always chasing the feeling of building something new. Then a headline-grabbing project for the 2023 Grammy Awards led him to drones, and Heads in the Sky was born. In this episode, Kevin shares how a flexible contractor gig gave him the afternoons to explore side projects, how a conversation in a golf cart turned into a company by the end of the night, and how three friends at h
Ep 31: Will Petz, Quiet Events (opens the original)
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Will Petz discovered silent discos on a cruise ship with his parents — dancing to music DJs play directly into your headphones — and thought it was the stupid until he tried it and realized it was amazing. At the time, Will was working in finance and IT — first moving computers on Wall Street for J.P. Morgan, then running the BlackBerry rollout at Lehman Brothers — when he decided to build his own headphones, throw his first silent disco party in New York, and see what happened. That party was t
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