Ep. 466: Breaking into the Ski Industry with Powder7 Founders/Owners - Jordan and Amy Jones
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Leaving a great job with good benefits to start a company that's technically illegal to operate out of your apartment is a big jump at best, completely irrational and foolish at worst. Today, Amy and Jordan wouldn't have it any other way with building Powder7, considered one of Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work.
This episode is filled with humor, insight, and adventure, like the time Jordan beat Lance Armstrong by an inch in a half-Ironman race. I hope you enjoy this conversation around life, business, and adventure sports!
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| 0:00.0 | You've got to grind away for years and put in hundreds of miles to improve a couple |
| 0:06.5 | seconds. |
| 0:07.5 | And business is oftentimes the same way. |
| 0:09.9 | You just got to like figure out something that works a little bit and then just grind |
| 0:13.6 | away at it to make it really work. |
| 0:19.5 | This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
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| 1:03.0 | Before I knew better, I used to carry cans of food into the backcountry, like a doofus. |
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| 1:19.4 | And if you keep listening to the episode, I can show you how to save 20% off an order if you want some. |
| 1:28.2 | You know, if you're wanting to build a career out of, you know, out of your love for the outdoors or your love for adventure. |
| 1:34.9 | If you're in the middle of it or if you've just got an idea, today's episode is really stinking cool. We interviewed Jordan and Amy Jones, the founders and the owners of Powder |
| 1:42.2 | Seven. It's like an online, it has a storefront, but it's mostly online ski shop, |
| 1:48.5 | which was kind of a really new idea when they first started. |
| 1:53.2 | And still, it's pretty unique in what they do. |
| 1:56.5 | But we get to hear exactly, oh, sorry, my phone just went on. |
| 2:03.8 | We get to hear exactly where the idea came from how it was starting it how young they were how how basically bootstrapped it was |
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