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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Chris “Drama” Pfaff: Founder and CEO of Young & Reckless | #ThePlaybook 61

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Chris “Drama” Pfaff, Founder and CEO of Young & Reckless, shares his thoughts on the failures of today’s educational system for entrepreneurs, how he drew inspiration to build his clothing brand from the approaches of Rob Dyrdek and Ken Block, and how asking for help has greatly accelerated his success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Dave Meltzer here and I sat down with the second most famous person from Akron

0:03.9

Ohio, Chris Path. You may remember him from the Fantasy Factory. He's also Rob

0:09.5

Deerdick's cousin and we'll talk about how using those relationships really has a system

0:14.2

and how the educational system in Ohio may have failed him. But most importantly

0:18.9

we also talked about which was better Skyway or Swenson's.

0:22.8

And for people in California, that's like arguing what's better,

0:25.2

Shake Shack or in and out.

0:26.8

But really started to understand how to get a direct path of revenue

0:30.6

and how to leverage relationships with our closest friends, family, etc.

0:35.0

Chris Drama knows how to bring it because he is a buck eye and not only a buck eye he's

0:40.1

like LeBron James and I born in Akron, Ohio.

0:43.5

So stick around with Chris Drama and I here on the playbook.

0:48.2

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,

0:50.4

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk

0:56.0

about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the

1:01.7

field and in the boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of

1:06.0

Sports One Marketing David Melzer. All right this day Melzer CEO of Sports One

1:12.3

marketing here with Entreprene the playbook and I'm here with a fellow Buckeye drama how are you that's right man. Are you from Ohio? I'm from Akron Ohio. You ever hear of it Yeah, Swenson is my favorite restaurant in the world.

1:25.0

Cow, you told me, right before we started, you're like, we have some stuff in common, I didn't know it was that.

1:29.0

Yeah.

1:30.0

Holy cow, I thought you were going to say, like, oh, I'm from like, you know, Cincinnati.

1:33.2

No, man, we were in the exclusive club because you and I both know what it's like to be from Ohio,

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