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This is the Black Rifle Coffee podcast

Hey, what's going on guys black rifle coffee cup and this is Mike Glover your host and I

Got Dave Woods good friend of mine. I want to talk to Dave today to bring you guys some value on

Military veteran entrepreneurship because you know veteran advocacy is important to element for us

But I also want to teach you guys

Some hard lessons learned over the last two years have been talking to Dave through COVID and everything else

About his business some challenges that he's faced and obviously

Bringing you the value those lessons learned so you don't have to make those same mistakes if this is your willhouse

David first of all, thank you for making the trip out here

I know it's painfully asked to get out here, but I'm state side now, so it's easy. Yeah, you used to be used to live in

You live in China Hong Kong

12 years in Vietnam and then Spain for the past two years crazy, man

Let's let's do this first. Let's

Give everybody kind of your background who you are what you own and then we'll kick it off from there

My name is David Wood. I was in the Marines 99 to 2005 went to university at Tennessee and

Moved over to Asia in 2008 over to Hong Kong based in Hong Kong was asked to be a liaison building underground house churches

Semonaries in China and then basing in Hong Kong because it was a free was

Prior 2019 was a free city started several businesses when I was out there

Sourcing commodities and for structured materials fabrics tech stuff and started vertus in 2015

Vertus outdoor group. Yeah, vertus outdoors has been Dave supported me when I had like two employees

I didn't have anybody like at least I had cool swag as I was wearing vertus outdoor stuff

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