Reinventing Power for the AI Era

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In today’s episode, I sit down with Dave Schell, a former NFL player turned founder whose work in digital electricity is reshaping how mission critical power is built for the future. We talk about his journey from the gridiron to the energy sector, the fifteen-year path that led him to innovate inside an industry that hasn’t changed in a century, and why AI factories and data centers are now at the center of his focus. Dave shares how niche expertise, clear communication, and real humility shaped his comeback after years of ups, downs, and reinvention.

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0:00.0	Welcome to entrepreneurs, the playbook, and I have the chairman and co-founder of VoIPFMP.
0:08.2	He is an incredible entrepreneur.
0:09.9	He has been through the ups, the downs, the sideways, back and forth.
0:13.4	His basement's had a basement, and now he's back again with Connected to the Goodness right
0:17.7	behind him.
0:18.3	Dave Schell, welcome to the playbook.
0:21.9	Hey, how you doing, Mr. Meltzer?
0:24.5	I am doing extremely well.
0:27.2	And, you know, in my bio, it says you are a seasoned entrepreneur, an innovator within the context of energy.
0:34.6	And I don't just mean that as a manufacturing representative, but you are truly
0:40.3	an innovator and understand and enlightened of energy itself. And now you've actually been
0:46.2	able to quantify that into business. There's so many different things going around with energy.
0:52.4	You know, do you think it's a coincidence that your
0:55.9	business is about energy?
0:59.5	That's funny.
1:00.3	I haven't actually done that correlation, but probably not.
1:03.1	The minute I really started focusing on universal energy, it was about the same time I got
1:09.4	into the energy sector about 15 years ago. So that's
1:13.0	pretty funny. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I was thinking about that because we both started that
1:18.0	journey and understanding the laws and not only of attraction, but the universe and energy,
1:23.5	enlightenment, awareness and frequency and vibration, which are all, believe it or not aligned with what you do with digital electricity and the DC packet business.
1:35.3	In the context of your business, though, you have a very unique niche business.
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