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Unlocking Moves Transitions Ep. 2 | HOT ONES Unlocked this Entrepreneur's Success!

from Unlocking Moves · host Kurt Wilkin

FROM DELL TO HOT SAUCE ON “HOT ONES.” 🌶️Listen to the Full Episode here: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/jtPjLYrHfYbIn this episode, Kurt sits down with @josuerivas, a Peruvian immigrant who walked out of a stable systems engineering job at Dell to chase food. He literally left the office and went straight to culinary school then built restaurants, lost it all, and had to start over taking prep-cook gigs in Portland just to get back in the kitchen.Josue didn’t quit. He later launched @savirfoods the chef-crafted hot sauce brand out of Austin that’s been featured on @hotones.This is why we’re posting these: career change isn’t always “I pivoted from marketing to product.” Sometimes it’s engineer → chef → broke → founder… and it still works!Unlock the full story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOsi7d6yetA&t=2416scareer transition, immigrant founder story, Dell to culinary school, Savir Foods, Hot Ones feature, food entrepreneur, real second chances, restaurant to CPG, unlocking moves podcastAbout Kurt Wilkin Kurt Wilkin is a connector - of dots, ideas, and people. For the past 30 years, he has advised high-growth companies, starting his career with Ernst & Young, and today in his roles as co-founder and visionary of HireBetter and managing partner of Bee Cave Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and CEOs build their companies. -----------Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocking-moves/id1683361653Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kurt-wilkin#UnlockingMoves #HireBetter

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