Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Roz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. Who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one-minute message that tell us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. All right, let's get to it. Joining me this week is Chet Pipkin. He's the founder of Belkin International. It's a name synonymous with computer cables, power banks, adapters, you name it. Chet, it's great to have you back on the show. Guy. It is so much fun to be here. Looking forward to all this time together. So I think about you all the time. I mean like even the back of my phone. I've got the Belkin magnet that I can connect to my laptop and use the back as a camera. I mean it's unbelievable the all the things that

Belkin makes you were Of course, first on the show back in twenty nineteen. And as always, we will put a link to that in the show notes, so uh check it out in that episode. Uh we talked about how you first got started in the early eighties, you'd hang out in like mom and pop computer shops, and you realize that computers. Actually, it's just so crazy we take it for granted. You couldn't easily connect a computer to a printer, for example, or to another computer. You just cables didn't exist. And so you started to solder cables and then sell them to to to shops and to

people who needed them, and eventually that turned into a business. You were twenty one You dropped out of college. Uh you started Belkin. And and if I remember, you really started it'cause you didn't have the money to start a P C company, which is kinda what you thought about doing. But you went on to start this other

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