Eli Crane: Navy SEAL, Entrepreneur, Congressional Candidate
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Jack Carr
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Note: This interview was recorded in June 2021, prior to Eli’s official announcement that he would be running for Congress.
My guest on Danger Close is Eli Crane. Eli is a former Navy SEAL, speaker, a SIG Sauer brand ambassador, veterans’ advocate and the CEO of Bottle Breacher.
He also recently announced that he will be running for Congress. Eli Crane first started making bottle openers from .50-caliber shells in his garage, but today the company has exploded and now sells a ton of cool military / tactical inspired gear and gifts. Eli has been featured in outlets including Entrepreneur.com, Coffee or Die, ABC’s Shark Tank and a ton of others.
You can follow him on social media @elicrane_ceo and learn more about his campaign at eliforarizona.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Six Hour. |
| 0:20.8 | My guest today is my friend Eli Crane. |
| 0:24.0 | Eli is a former Navy SEAL who is the CEO of Bottle Breacher. |
| 0:29.3 | So you may have seen him on Shark Tank a few years back. |
| 0:32.2 | An amazing episode, you can find it on YouTube, highly recommend, you check it out. |
| 0:36.4 | And if you followed me for a while or listened to a few of these podcasts, you know that I love |
| 0:40.0 | it when people get out of the military, get out of law enforcement, intelligence services |
| 0:45.3 | or from doing being firefighters. |
| 0:48.4 | And move on to that next chapter in life and find that next passion. |
| 0:52.9 | And in Eli's case, he has grown this business, he is a passionate entrepreneur and he's |
| 0:57.8 | taking those lessons from the SEAL teams, from his military service and built on them going |
| 1:03.2 | forward. |
| 1:04.2 | So whether it's Rob Smith at Resco watches right here or Andrew Erbito right here with |
| 1:09.9 | these half face blades or Eli Crane with Bottle Breacher. |
| 1:15.0 | You can see those right here, this one and we talk about it is the first one that was |
| 1:19.0 | given to me back in the Philippines in I think 2009. |
| 1:23.5 | And then Eli took this idea and ran with it and makes a whole bunch of things other than |
| 1:29.8 | 50 Cal bottle breaches. |
| 1:30.8 | But if you don't have a 50 Cal bottle breacher, I'm not sure we can be friends. |
| 1:34.7 | So you can follow Eli on Eli ELI C-R-A-N-E Eli Crane underscore CEO that's his personal |
| 1:43.9 | or bottle breacher on the social channels. |
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