#59: Daryl Kelly: Co-Founder Of Solgen Power, Serial Entrepreuer

The Founder Podcast

Chris Lee

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode of the Founder Podcast, host Chris Lee interviews his longtime business partner and friend Daryl Kelly. Chris and Daryl share stories from their early days working together in pest control sales and the challenges that led them to start their first business venture together - a coupon book fundraiser. Daryl discusses growing up in a large family on a farm and the values of hard work and family that were instilled in him. Chris and Daryl also reminisce about memorable experiences over their 19 years working together, from competitions in wheelbarrows to daring dares to drink hot sauces. Join us for a fun look back at the friendship and entrepreneurial journey that started it all! Highlights: "Grew up fourth of eight kids. So grew up in a big family in the middle." "I think my dad and mom have always been principle based. You know, this is what we do. This is who we are, this is why we do it." - Daryl on lessons learned from his parents. "We won that contest. The wheelbarrow on a wheelbarrow haul baby, like obviously we had dinner and we've met before that but that was like the first like memory of like, really like doing something together." Timestamps: 00:00: Introduction 01:47: Childhood Memories 07:02: Growing Up 15:45: Family & Business 24:41: Coupon Book 33:16: Mentorship's 39:43: Policies & Politics 45:38: Conspiracies 54:33: Overcoming Struggles Live Links: 🚀 Join my community - Founder Acceleration https://www.founderacceleration.com 🤯 Apply for our next Mastermind https://www.thefoundermastermind.com ⛳️ Golf with Chris https://www.golfwithchris.com 🎤 Watch my latest Podcast Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-founder-podcast/id1687030281 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1e0cL2vI1JAtQrojSOA7D2?si=dc252f8540ee4b05 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@thefounderspodcast

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0:00.0	And so you have like these two people, two individuals with just very broken family experiences.
0:09.2	Like my mom's driven for family.
0:11.2	Like she's like it's bred into her and then my dad's just driven just to work hard.
0:15.9	Like put your head down work hard no one cares how you feel like just get the work done.
0:20.8	And so I think you just combine those two and obviously there's tons of, you know, tons of issues and conflicts or whatnot, but you just had like this overarching like work hard and like put family first.
0:34.0	Yo, y'o, welcome to another episode of the founder podcast.
0:38.0	Today is an extremely special day.
0:40.0	First off, I'm wearing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
0:44.0	Dude, you can't get better than Rudolph the Rednrels or reindeer.
0:48.0	On top of that, got my good friend, longtime business partner.
0:52.0	Mr. Darrell Kelly Kelly welcome to the show
0:54.3	Thanks for having me. Oh, you know the people have been begging for this one Darrell
0:59.4	I've been getting a lot of comments, like, where's Darrell at?
1:03.4	Can we hear from the man behind the scenes
1:06.0	that actually is doing all the work?
1:07.9	Mm.
1:09.3	That's not what it is.
1:11.2	So, dude, excited to have you, tell your story a little bit.
1:15.0	Dude, give us a little, little your background.
1:21.0	Like if you were going to give a 30 second elevator pitch on who you are, what you do, give it to us.
1:28.0	So yeah, the best way to describe who I am in the now.
1:35.6	So I am a father of four girls and been married
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