The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 15, 2016) – Host Doug Wells recently spoke with Clint Betts, founder and editor-in-chief of Beehive Startups, about Startup Santa, a book-drive challenge for Utah tech companies and businesses to raise books for low-income families. Betts says two out of every three Utah children living in low-income families and…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: November 1, 2016) – Republican Gary Herbert has already served as Utah’s Governor for 7 years, and he’s asking Utahns to elect him next week for 4 more years. In this interview Herbert discusses his thoughts on treating inequality and poverty in Utah, how the state should move forward on…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 18, 2016) –When two idealistic entrepreneurs – John F. Nichols and Johnathan C. Coon – launched 1-800 Contacts in the mid-1990s, they realized they had a serious ‘Supply and Demand’ problem. On the supply side, contact lens manufacturers didn’t want to sell to them. On the demand side, consumers…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 11, 2016) – Mike Weinholtz believes he has better ideas and better policy solutions to help Utah’s economy thrive than Governor Gary Herbert. Weinholtz is the Democratic candidate for governor. He was formerly CEO of CHG Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the U.S. In this…
The Bottom Line (Air Date: October 4, 2016) – Before Jeremy Andrus discovered Traeger Wood Pellet Grills through a search fund, he had successfully helped to lift Skullcandy as its CEO from $1 million dollars in annual sales to over $300 million dollars before eventually taking the company public. But Traeger proved to be a…
The Bottom Line (Original air Date: August 5, 2014) – This is the first half of a two-part interview with Paul Zane Pilzer, one of Utah’s most successful serial entrepreneurs. Pilzer describes his climb from working as Citibank’s youngest officer at 22, to selling time share homes in the Hamptons in Long Island, NY, to…
The Bottom Line – (Original Air date: March 22, 2016) By the late 1980s American Stores was the largest drug-store retailer in the United States and the third-largest grocery retailer in the country. The company operated Acme Markets on the East Coast and Alpha Beta on the West Coast. Among the business leaders steering the…
Startup Spotlight (August 2016) — RoviTracker is a rental management software to help companies that use heavy equipment rent and track their inventory. CEO and Founder Alain Eav, says he developed the program after years of dealing with some frustrations managing an equipment rental fleet. Eav shares how his former company Mobilight International in Utah…
Startup Spotlight (August 2016) — Vutiliti is an application that will provide people with real-time analytics and data about their use of electricity, gas, and water. Sumner Douglas, the company’s COO, says homeowners have long wanted access to real-time utility data in order to conserve and save money. Douglas says they estimate their product could…
Startup Spotlight (August 2016) — Core Learning Exchange CEO and Founder Jeffrey Katzman says current platforms used in most K-12 education are designed to support a “factory-style” of education setup in the last century. Core Learning Exchange, on the other hand, aims to help educators to individualize instruction for each student. With more personalized learning…
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