How They're Here

Tyler Webb
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On How They're Here, 20-year-old business student, Tyler Webb, has conversations with midwestern entrepreneurs and creatives in order to learn more about their non-traditional paths to success and the reasons America's Heartland is becoming an emerging hub for business and innovation. Episodes every OTHER Wednesday.

  1. 02/12/2020

    S2 E023: Kyle Hale | Former COO of Bite Squad

    This week you'll hear a conversation I had with former Bite Squad COO, Kyle Hale. Bite Squad is a restaurant delivery service that was founded here in Minneapolis, and is prominent for providing excellent service whether delivery or take-out. They are partnered with local restaurants, maintain a robust customer service, and utilize a fleet of environmentally friendly vehicles to get fresh food from the restaurant straight to the customer, quickly and hassle free! They are widely regarded as one of the city’s most successful tech start-ups. Kyle Hale is an entrepreneur and technology executive who built the foundation of his career in sales and operations with both B2B and B2C high growth technology companies. His roles span the fitness industry, multi-unit operations in QSR, e-commerce, selling software to the enterprise and most recently as partner and COO of Bite Squad, the restaurant delivery service which was acquired for $321M in January of 2019. As COO Kyle led customer support, dispatch, field operations, and cross matrix managed sales, marketing, and product with the CEOs. A unique generalist with expansive domain knowledge in sales, marketing automation, product/software development, full-cycle recruiting, leadership, and strategy execution. More creative than an executive, he has a non-egotistical approach with a focus on developing the psychology and performance of his team through 1-1 mentoring. After building two companies to acquisition in the last 7 years, he is now consulting with startups in the midwest, serves as a dad to his son, Sky, and is working to start a children’s clothing line. Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    1h 10m

  2. 01/29/2020

    S2 E022: Nick McLaughlin | Stationary Astronaut

    This week I have one of the more unique conversations I’ve had in a while with Minnesota’s resident “dot connector and glue piece,” Nick McLaughlin aka the Stationary Astronaut. On the surface, Stationary Astronaut is a philanthropic media and event company, but deeper than that it’s the culmination of all Nick’s entire life… the good, the bad and the ugly. In this episode we dig into all of it, we talk about what makes up the fabric of an entrepreneur and what someone in my position can be doing to cut their teeth and shape themselves for the next 10 years. Enjoy! Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    1h 14m

  3. 01/15/2020

    S2 E021: Jackson LeFebvre | Co-Founder & CEO of ParkPoolr

    **NOTE** Upon going back to edit this episode, the first 33ish minutes of this podcast’s audio file vanished. Poof, gone, nada, nothing. So you’ll have to bear with some below average camera audio until about minute 33 when the microphones kick back in. Sorry for my seeming incompetencies. I won’t be sorry, I’ll be better. This week I sat down with Jackson LeFebvre, the co-founder and CEO of ParkPoolr. ParkPoolr is a web-based app that crowd-sources parking spots for large events, such as sports, concerts or even the Minnesota State Fair. While this is his first official business venture, Jackson has always been a man of ideas and an admirer of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. But it took a trip to Hong Kong (where he met his co-founder Landon Butterworth), for Jackson to realize that the trajectory he was on at the University of Minnesota of studying finance and entrepreneurship was much like that of most of his other classmates. Aspiring for more, Jackson took his semester abroad as a leap of faith, which catalyzed the start of ParkPoolr and the rest of his professional career. Since, Jackson and ParkPoolr have won the MN Cup (an entrepreneurship competition in which the winner pockets $40,000), been featured on numerous media outlets, and on boarded thousands of potential parkers thanks to the Minnesota United season and Minnesota State Fair. Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    1h 2m

  4. 12/11/2019

    S2 E020: Ross Larson | Co-Founder & COO of Float

    This week you'll hear the second part of a two part series chronicling the start of Minnesota-based tech start-up, Float. COO and Co-Founder of Float, Ross Larson, describe the web-based service as the "Airbnb of boats," which simply allows boat owners to rent out their boats when they're not using them. Ross’s story is one that looks a lot like anyone else's. He went to school at Iowa State, studied engineering and had a good paying sales job in Chicago after graduation. However, for Ross, there was still something that felt unfinished. The conversations he and his life-long friend Jake McHenry had about starting a business never fully came to fruition. That all changed when Jake called Ross with a recent relocation he had in an MBA class: Airbnb for boats. Ross loved the idea but was skeptical about leaving his young career in Chicago. That was until he had a life-altering tipping point. His mom died unexpectedly, which caused Ross to face the music. He realized he wanted to be doing something more with his life, so he quit, packed his bags and moved into Jake’s mom’s basement in Minnesota. Hear the whole story, and the mindset that got him here in this week's episode! Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    54 min

  5. 12/04/2019

    S2 E019: Jake McHenry | Co-Founder and CEO of Float

    This week you'll hear the first part of a two part series chronicling the start of Minnesota-based tech start-up, Float. CEO and Co-Founder of Float, Jake McHenry, describe the web-based service as the "Airbnb of boats," which simply allows boat owners to rent out their boats when they're not using them. Jake's story is one grounded in entrepreneurship, work and constant progress and it started younger than most as he began working for his parent's ballroom dance studio around the age of 5. From there, his entrepreneurial ambitions grew, although briefly side-tracked during his time in school and working at Target. But even as he was pursuing a more "traditional" career, the wheels never stoped turning and him and his co-founder / life-long friend, Ross Larson (next week's episode), and an epiphany struck while in an MBA class here at Carlson for peer-to-peer rentals for boats. Hear the whole story, and the mindset that got him here in this week's episode!  Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    58 min

  6. 11/20/2019

    S2 E018: Peter Schultze | Co-Founder and CEO of Plyo

    Peter Schultze started Plyo out of the Carlson School of Management here at the University of Minnesota, and while the app hasn't always looked the same, Peter and his co-founder have been consistently driven by their mission of helping students build healthier behaviors in one of the most formidable times of their life. Plyo helps students do this by tracking how much time they spend at their university's fitness center and allowing them to earn points that they can use for discounts at area restaurants, stores and even online. Peter and I discuss his journey into entrepreneurship, starting all the way back in elementary school and continuing through a variety of other ventures including a music label and a digital agency.  Peter now works full time on Plyo, recently stepping away from his degree program at Carlson, and aims to take the platform to more Big 10 schools, students and businesses in 2020 with his growing team of now 4 employees.  Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    1h 3m

  7. 11/06/2019

    S2 E017: Sports Videography, 1.9 Million Followers and Top High School Recruits | Josh Englert

    This week I sat down with Josh Englert, videographer for SLAM. SLAM is a print and online basketball publication with millions of followers aggregated across multiple platforms. Josh has been working with them for over a year as a freelance videographer and editor, and is responsible for shooting some of Minnesota’s top high school recruits including Jalen Suggs, Page Bueckers and Chet Holmgren. I organically stumbled across Josh’s fast-paced and hard-hitting edits about a month ago, and was immediately intrigued by the infrastructure that SLAM has built with independent creators. Josh sheds a light into how this world of scalable content works, and shares what it’s like to work for these world-wide brands from the perspective of a creator. Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    38 min

  8. 10/23/2019

    S2 E016: Tech, Start Ups and Studying Entrepreneurship | Taran Johal

    Listen to Taran Johal, co-founder and CEO of app Tavolo, discuss how he’s working to reimagine the restaurant industry while still in school. Taran and his two co-founders started Tavolo in early 2018 and have already partnered with 16 Minneapolis restaurants, placed as a semi-finalist in the MN Cup and have begun attracting a local base of users. Taran sheds some light into his daily schedule and how he manages to balance a full class load with a young company. His perspective into the life of an entrepreneur just goes to show the amount of work it takes to find success with your own venture, and how it’s possible to remain fulfilled and motivated through a process that is all too often draining and destructive. Get a FREE $5 -> https://cash.app/app/CSDFRPD Check out my gear -> https://kit.com/howtheyrehere/podcast-setup Earn a free stock -> https://act.webull.com/promotion/invitation/share.html?inviteCode=VRufndUhOqUU

    1h 1m
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On How They're Here, 20-year-old business student, Tyler Webb, has conversations with midwestern entrepreneurs and creatives in order to learn more about their non-traditional paths to success and the reasons America's Heartland is becoming an emerging hub for business and innovation. Episodes every OTHER Wednesday.

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  • Creator
    Tyler Webb
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tyler Webb
  • Show Website
    How They're Here