226 – Almonds Surfboards: Dave Allee

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

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4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 103 minutes

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10 years ago, at the age of 22, Dave Allee signed the lease to a retail space on Newport Blvd. He partnered with surfboard shaper Griffin Neumann-Kyle to launch Almond Surfboards, built in the traditional of classic California surf brands, but forward thinking and community focused. In today’s show we discuss brand building, burnout, managing … Continue reading "226 – Almonds Surfboards, Dave Allee" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the show. It's been about a two-week hiatus since I've last published an episode. I've actually been recording a lot and editing more than usual. So plenty of content to be published in the coming
0:22.0	weeks. Chaz is in Copenhagen. So that's why you haven't heard us on the grit. But I'll be
0:29.2	reconnecting with him next week. And then Scott and I are recording an episode of Spit tomorrow. So
0:34.7	everything will be back on track. The U.S. Open has invaded my hometown.
0:39.3	So hopefully you're watching that online. The waves are tiny, but it's pretty amazing to watch those guys surf such poor conditions.
0:47.3	And if you're in the area, if you're in Huntington Beach or Orange County at large, Friday night, Donald Brank and I are going to be
0:54.9	hosting an informal meet-and-greet at the Visla store in Pacific City. Dane Godowskis is going to come
1:01.5	by and join us too. We want you to come hang. Donald's going to be shaping boards up until about
1:06.4	6.30. They have like a mobile shaping bay that they're going to have on site. So he'll be shaping until 6.30.
1:12.6	I'm going to show up around 6 p.m.
1:14.6	and then just hang out as long as possible or as long as anybody's interested in hanging out.
1:19.8	So 6.30 p.m. this Friday, the Visla store at Pacific City in Huntington Beach, right across from where they're hosting the U.S.
1:28.5	Open.
1:29.5	And then for today's show for this podcast, I'm bringing you a far-ranging conversation about
1:36.4	board building, brand building, managing growth in one small business, hunting, who is Andy Neblis? We're going to talk about soft tops,
1:47.8	all of this with Dave Ali of almond surfboards. People started mentioning almond surfboards as a
1:53.8	potential guest years ago. The boards are really beautiful. The brand is really strong. They have a
1:59.4	really amazing apparel line. So Dave
2:02.8	Ali is the guy behind all of that. And we recorded this conversation in his backyard in Newport Beach,
2:08.6	California over a bottle of rosé last week with the ambient audio provided by the occasional
2:15.4	gardener in the background.
2:20.0	So try to ignore that, block that out.
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