Kelcy Pegler, Jr. is the founder and CEO of MemberWhen, a new company started in 2016 that produces customized podcasts for personalized storytelling. Kelcy builds companies that can manage rapid growth and move quickly to exploit market opportunities in new and disruptive spaces. While doing this Kelcy has received 40 under 40, Entrepreneur of the Year, and Fastest Growing company awards. Before MemberWhen, Kelcy co-founded and served as CEO of Roof Diagnostics Solar, a fast-growing residential solar installation company that was acquired in 2014 by Fortune 200 company NRG Energy. Kelcy is a dedicated husband to his wife, Kim, and the proud father of two young children. Kelcy graduated from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Casey Neistat
- Phil Knight
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had this view of the world that experts knew everything and none experts knew nothing, like when you grow up and you think your parents are infallible and you realise wow they make mistakes too, then you think the same thing in school, then for a very short amount of time you think the same thing for the world we live in today, you think the government gets it all right then you realise wow they screw things up too, I learnt that in the business world, there really are very few experts. When you do find an expert you realise that people are really only exceptional at one thing so if you can figure out what those experts are exceptional at they’re kind of just getting by or faking the rest of the stuff”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Should I Share My Ice Cream? Book by Mo Willems
Favourite Quote:
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ― Michael Jordan
Recommended Online Resources:
Audio
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Just do it, you look around and it’s hard not to be impressed with the people who are most successful today, we have so much access to so many great success stories and I think what is most valuable is to look back to the beginning, they started in almost all cases with much less from a resource standpoint than we have access to”…[Listen for More]
More About Kelcy Pegler:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“What can I do in this situation?” The more we can ask such questions, the more we bring about changes where we are.” Sunday Adelaja
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kelcy Pegler:
- “There’s two traits I wouldn’t trade for anything, persistency and resiliency”
- “If you take the view in life and you take the view in business that you can really do whatever you want, that you will achieve whatever you want, the variable, and the very important variable becomes, it might take you a really really long time and then what becomes your biggest influencers are let’s find something that we really enjoy doing because we might be doing it for a long time and added let’s try to do something were really good at because it’ll probably shorten our path to success but if you’re persistent, I really am of the mind that you can accomplish anything”
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