Podcasts

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554: What It’s Like to Run an Action Sports Hat Company With Jimmy Hickey, Findlay Hats [Main T4C Episode]

Jimmy Hickey is the founder and owner of Findlay Hats, an action sports hat company he co-launched out of his living room in 2013. He started out his professional life as a commercial photographer but was still looking for something else to pay the bills during slower winter months. That’s..

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558: How to Take Your Idea From Paper to Product With Jimmy Hickey, Findlay Hats [K-Cup DoubleShot]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“I think being hardworking, ambitious, [having a] positive mental attitude, I think those are all really important pieces and if you have those pieces in your character as a whole—self-motivating, eagerness to learn—all of those positive traits, I think that makes the list of jobs … easier.”

Career Challenge

“Through 2019, we just had a really difficult year when it came to sales. It was a constant battle of making payroll, being able to pay our bent teams’ benefits, being able to pay for inventory … and long story short, it was a really challenging year and it all came from cash flow problems and it all came from our sales and it all came from the strategy of scaling and growing [that] wasn’t working anymore. So that was the problem. And the fix was just to do a deep dive into what was working, what wasn’t working and what we needed to do to survive … And that kind of made us rework our strategy and that made us adapt … So we took the bad sales and pivoted and regrouped and figured out … we just need to sustain the business.”