William Toms and David Silver: Co-Founders of REC | #ThePlaybook 169

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

William Toms and David Silver, Co-founders of REC, talk about how their dream has evolved from hosting their first music event and hoping to make $10 to building a 10,000 square foot co-creative facility for local artists, musicians, and creators. The duo shares their thoughts on some of the challenges they faced fundraising for their venue, and how tweaking their investment structure helped them to secure the funding they needed to ultimately build their revolutionary community of creators. William, David, and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, discuss some of the challenges associated with pitching an idea for investment, how to handle hearing “no”, and making the most of your work/life integration. 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 William Toms and David Silver, the co-founders of Rec
0:06.0	Philly and they are empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs by showing them how to take the traditional and rethink it.
0:14.8	It's we work on steroids for the creatives.
0:18.1	That's right, join me for all of this and more
0:20.1	on the playbook.
0:21.8	This is entrepreneurs, the playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest
0:26.1	athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional
0:31.7	playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.
0:37.0	I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.
0:42.0	This is Dave Melzer.
0:45.7	This is Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs, the Playbook, and I am so excited because talk about a venue
0:48.5	and talk about entrepreneurs.
0:49.7	We are here with two great entrepreneurs.
0:51.9	I always say this about entrepreneurs, good ones.
0:54.2	You stole my idea, bro.
0:56.0	These guys are the co-founder, William Toms,
0:58.4	and of course, David Silver over there,
1:00.0	not from the NBA.
1:01.4	But you guys have this business wreck,
1:04.2	REC, and you have solved so many different issues
1:11.0	that exist today in the business world to socioeconomic world even in the
1:16.9	humanitarian sense of what's going on you created a unique co-working facility that you put into shopping malls.
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