David Kohler: CEO and Founder of SCP Auctions | #ThePlaybook 175

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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David Kohler, CEO and Founder of SCP Auctions, talks about how his childhood passion evolved into one of the world’s most successful auction houses of sports memorabilia. From his beginnings selling sports memorabilia in high school to building a record-setting auction business, Kohler shares some of the most important lessons he’s learned along the way. David Kohler and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer discuss the importance of building authentic relationships in the sports industry (and beyond). The pair also chat about why the memorabilia has staying power despite so many technological changes, when entrepreneurs should consider leaving school, and some of the auction records that SCP has set. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Playbook, I have David Kohler, the CEO and founder of the
0:04.0	SCP auctions who just sold Babe Bruce Bat for over a million dollars. Find out
0:09.5	how he started this
0:15.0	is 18 years old in a shack 500 square feet. Join me for all of this and more on The Playbook.
0:18.0	This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook
0:20.0	where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs
0:25.6	to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions
0:31.4	on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of
0:36.1	Sports One Marketing David Melzer. This is Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs the
0:42.1	playbook and I have another David
0:43.6	it seems to be a trend David Kohler the CEO and founder of SEP auctions who I've
0:49.3	actually known for years and has one of the most interesting businesses, but beyond having the one
0:54.3	of the most interesting businesses, this is the coolest set I've ever been in.
0:59.1	It's not a set, it's actually a room at your house.
1:01.6	Yes.
1:02.6	Let's just give a little bit of background first
1:04.2	on what SEP auctions is and then allow this
1:08.0	to kind of flow backwards into,
1:09.9	how are we sitting into a room
1:12.0	with the most liquor memorabilia in the entire world?
1:15.0	Well, it all started when I was young, doing cards, collecting cards as a kid in high school and all that,
1:22.0	developed into a big business my company
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