Cult Of Startup Podcast

Today’s guest in this episode of Cult of Startup is Steve Irby. Steve Irby is the founder and president of KICKER, a company he began in 1973 that produces high-performance home and personal audio, car audio, power sports products, and other vehicle-specific solutions. Steve’s learned a wide variety of lessons when it comes to creating your own company from the ground up, especially when it involves something you love doing. For Steve, it all started with building and constructing speaker systems. Some Questions I Ask Steve: Did you have any desire to start a business while you were going to school? [2:50] What was your major in before you decided you wanted to go another route? [3:46] What exactly happened post-grad school that made you do a 180 on your goals? [5:18] What else began to occupy your time when you were close to finishing your thesis and wrapping up grad school? [6:49] Do you have a specific system or method for jotting your ideas down in? [16:14] Do you use the Gallup StrengthsFinder as part o