470 – Launching Oransi with Entrepreneur Peter Mann
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Peter shares his entrepreneur journey, dealing with an autism diagnosis later in life and launching his small business. Peter Mann is the CEO & Founder of Oransi, a leading air purification company known for its efficient, intuitive, and reliable products for consumers, schools, organizations, and businesses. In 2021, Oransi merged with Aviemore Technologies and is now a motor technology company with a clean energy mission. Oransi's new manufacturing facility in Radford, Virginia is making products in the USA with advanced motor technologies. Previously, Peter was the Founder & CEO of the Austin, Texas-based Alen Corp., an air purification company he built, and after 7 years had a successful business exit. He went to college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and then served 4 years, including a tour in the Red Sea during the First Gulf War. He was a communications officer and then a gunnery officer on the USS McCandless. Peter autism diagnosis came in his 50s and he now advocates for autism awareness in the workplace.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here is your host. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. My guest today is Peter Mann. Peter, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah, thanks, Henry. Excited to be here. Looking forward to this conversation. We're going to explore |
| 0:27.2 | everything from from Peter serving in the military to his later in life autism diagnosis and then |
| 0:34.5 | sharing his inspiring entrepreneurial journey through all of that, including founding |
| 0:40.0 | and growing his latest venture, Oranzi. Oranzi is a maker of the best HEPA error purifiers. |
| 0:47.4 | If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business, including the show notes page for |
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| 1:06.8 | miss any episodes. So Peter Mann is the CEO and founder of Virginia-based Oranzi, |
| 1:14.2 | a leading air purification company known for its efficient, intuitive, and reliable products |
| 1:20.1 | for consumers, schools, organizations, and businesses. He also is the chair of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Air Cleaner |
| 1:30.8 | Council. And in 2021, Oranzi merged with, how do you pronounce that? Avivore. |
| 1:38.9 | Ivy Moore. Thank you. Ivymore manufacturing. I knew Aviemore Technologies, and is now a motor technology company with a clean energy mission. |
| 1:49.7 | Ranzi's new manufacturing facility in Radford, Virginia is making products in the USA with advanced motor technologies. |
| 1:58.2 | Previously, Peter was the founder and CEO of the Austin, Texas-based Allen |
| 2:04.8 | Corp, an air purification company he built, and after seven years, he had a successful exit |
| 2:10.5 | from that business. He went to college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and then served four years, |
| 2:16.8 | including a tour in the Red Sea during the |
| 2:19.6 | first go-for. He was a communications officer and then a gunnery officer on the USS McCandless. |
| 2:28.1 | Peter is late-diagnosed autistic and now advocates for autism awareness in the workplace. |
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