Fleet Feet COO, Matt Zeiger, and VP of Digital and Operations, Jason Jabaut | #ThePlaybook 306

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Fleet Feet COO, Matt Zeiger, and VP of Digital and Operations, Jason Jabaut, talk about the company’s history and how they work to follow the example of the female innovators who founded it, as well as the focus on personal development for Fleer Feet’s teams. Zeiger, Jabaut, and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about the role that ecommerce platforms have played for retail businesses in recent months and some most valuable lessons learned along the way. The trio also discuss how Fleet Feet was able to find technology partners to help improve their product offerings by incorporating 3D scanning and offering runners even more customization. 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 Jason Jabba the VP of Digital for Fleet Feet and of course
0:08.7	Matt Ziger the C.O. of Fleet Feet and we're going to talk about why retail is not for the faint of heart.
0:17.0	Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.
0:20.0	This is entrepreneurs, the playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes
0:25.7	celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the board
0:35.6	room.
0:36.6	I'm your host David Melzer.
0:38.6	This is Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs of the playbook and I have the dynamic duo with me that's right Matt Ziger the chief
0:44.4	operating officer and Jason Jabot the VP of digital and franchise operations
0:48.4	for the incredible overnight success fleet fleet feat.
0:53.0	Welcome to the show, you guys.
0:54.3	Thank you, Dave.
0:55.5	Pleasure to be on.
0:56.9	Yeah, I mean, you guys have been around a long time,
1:00.9	but yet this may be your glory year. This is the Super Bowl season. You have positioned
1:06.6	and evolved over time. So I'd love to talk about the evolution of the company because everyone sees even your company as an overnight success and I always laugh
1:17.8	There's no such thing it's obviously you have evolved to the position you're in.
1:23.2	If you give us a little history and lessons
1:26.3	that you've learned along the way.
1:28.3	So Jason, you've been with the company
1:31.0	for a lot longer and seeing it in many different phases. Why don't you take that one?
1:36.6	Yeah, you know, Fleet Feet was founded in 1976, so that was over 40 years ago. So if we're an overnight success,
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