Ep. 66 – Imagination Meets Engineering With Lovepop Co-founder & COO, John Wise Creating Magical Moments With John Wise
Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold
Second in Command with Cameron Herold
4.9 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to |
| 0:11.8 | its founder Cameron Herald. |
| 0:14.0 | In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies, |
| 0:20.0 | and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief. |
| 0:23.5 | And now here's your host, Cameron Harold. |
| 0:30.1 | John Wise is the co-founder and CEO of Lovepop. |
| 0:33.4 | John grew up in the mountains of South Carolina, |
| 0:35.4 | spending as much time outdoors and on the water as possible. |
| 0:38.9 | He studied naval architecture and marine engineering |
| 0:41.4 | at the Web Institute where he met his future business partner and best friend Wamby Rose. |
| 0:46.2 | After graduating from Webb in 2009, John joined Metal Shark Boats in Generate, Louisiana Louisiana where he designed and engineered and project managed high-speed |
| 0:56.4 | aluminum boat platforms including the U.S. Coast Guard RBS, which can still be seen in Boston Harbor |
| 1:02.2 | today. |
| 1:03.4 | After two years, John was promoted to engineering manager leading the company-wide engineering team. |
| 1:08.6 | In 2013, John left Metal Shark Boats to pursue his MBA from Harvard Business School where he |
| 1:14.0 | reunited with his best friend Wambi and on a business school trip to Vietnam |
| 1:17.8 | John and Wambi discovered incredible ancient art of Kiragami and were inspired. |
| 1:23.2 | The duo took their engineering background |
| 1:24.8 | and combined the paper art form |
| 1:27.2 | with the slice form structure used in ship design |
| 1:29.9 | and developed Slice Gami, they've trademarked. And Love Pop was born out of that. |
| 1:34.7 | Love Pop is on a mission to create 1 billion magical moments |
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