Here with Nick Barrett today.
Please, Nick, tell me about your vision.
Yeah, so my vision is first to build something
starting with a company and that started with a brick.
Cord Brick is our first product.
And then that's continuing to building
and inspiring other people to do the same.
I'm a recovering alcoholic
and I wanna help inspire other people to start a business
because, and bring their creation to the world
because it's been so helpful for me personally.
I got you.
So did you start creating Cord Bricks
after you got done with alcohol
or was there an in-between step?
Yeah, absolutely.
I needed to start stop drinking
before I created my product and launched the business.
There's no way I was in like the mental shape
to be able to do that.
So yeah, after I got sober a couple of years later,
I was like, okay, I had this idea.
Let's go with it.
I'm ready.
Yeah, I got you.
So what's your why?
What's your why behind getting started on all of this?
Well, first, because I've never really fit in
at a lot of different companies.
And I'm a creative person and always wanted to bring
my ideas to the way things are done.
And I saw a problem and I looked in the marketplace
and I saw that there was no good solution
for the problem that I was experiencing.
I know that that's how many businesses get started.
I always love the show Shark Tank.
And so I thought I might be an entrepreneur,
but I never really had a good enough idea.
And then with this, I kind of saw that there was a gap
in the market and I figured that I had enough knowledge
to be able to maybe get a product to market
and hopefully create a company.
And so that's what we're trying to do.
Yeah, as a fellow creative,
I also felt like I never really fit into a company,
any other place than starting my own.
I feel like I would get in there and kind of fit the role,
but I'd wanna start doing other things inside of it,
but it just feels too constricting sometimes
being a part of another company.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I mean, if you're an entrepreneur,
at least most entrepreneurs
are what they call visionaries, right?
So as you were just saying,
you have a vision of something,
the creative vision of how it should be
or how it might work.
And then it's the process of like communicating that vision
and getting other people to agree that that's a good vision
for the way that certain things should be.
For me, it's like, okay, the vision is,
you gotta change how you use your charger cord.
You gotta pop it in a little brick
on your nightstand every night.
That's a little different than what you've been doing.
You gotta wrap it around the brick when you take it to go,
but people actually like changing the process
and that's why they're buying the product
is because it's solving the problems
and they bought into the vision.
I got you.
So where do you think you're gonna go with your vision?
What's your goal, your end goal with it all?
My goal for this company is a brand acquisition.
Believe it or not,
I don't wanna sell cord management products my whole life.
So we're expanding our product line
to include other things other than cord management
and then hopefully we'll get the brand acquired.
But I've got a ton more ideas
that if I'm able to sell the company,
I might be able to fund myself
or at least spend some time working
on some of those other projects.
So I've always wanted to do something different.
I never wanna do the same job over and over.
So I think this is kind of like,
it goes along those lines where,
no matter what I'm doing,
I'm always gonna wanna kind of create something new.
And then that's gonna come to an end at some point.
Yeah, unfortunately it all does come to an end.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
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Have an excellent time building out your vision
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