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Chet Pipkin

lines on the record: 69
first: 2025-11-13
most recent: 2025-11-13
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Lots of people have left Bane to start businesses, but so you were doing consulting, now you're doing this. That's awesome. Okay, before we dive in further, tell us your question.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's cool. What are your ingredients? I'm assuming, given that it's environmentally friendly, you probably hate this term clean ingredients, but I'm sure they're”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I'm looking at your website. You've got basically four products you've got shampoo conditioner, body wash, hand soap, and I'm just kind of describing the cubes. They look like candy, actually. They're little cubes, and it comes in a tin and you use one, and you just bring in the shower, you rub in your hands, and then you soap down or you shampoo your hair conditioner. Tell me a little bit about where are you sold only direct to consumer through your website?”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's such a great idea. I mean, it's zero waste, basically. I mean, you've got the tin, but the tin presumably can be reused or recycled pretty easily.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Awesome. Daniel, welcome to the show, calling from Toronto Earth SUD. So these are not great announcements, but like laundry detergent tablets, but for shampoo and conditioner and soap. Yeah, tell me how it works.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, let's go. Hello, Caller. Welcome to the advice line you're on with Chuck Pipkin, founder Belkin. Please tell us your name where you're calling from, and just a quick line about your business, please”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, when I was in high school, there was no doubt I was going to go to university and I was going to finish. There's just no doubt about that. Was also no doubt that I was going to start a business. And as the business got going, the level of passion that I had for that versus the level of passion that I had for school, the former dwarfed the second, I didn't have a choice Was no way that I could do anything in my life except pursue that. Was I didn't expect that to happen, it just did. And so I think If people have good intentions, good motives are in touch with their values. Following your passion in that moment is probably not a bad way to go. And I do think of myself as a lifelong learner. So that's never ever gone away. So education's critical. We don't want to minimize that in any way.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Shit, I'm curious to get your take on something. It just occurred to me because you dropped out of college to start Belkin. And when you did that, that was a little bit more unusual. I mean, to go to college, certainly at the time that you went, and it was a bigger deal. Now we're seeing a lot of young people graduate and more and more anecdotal information that with AI, it could create more and more unemployment for traditional college graduates. I wonder whether you think that there's still value in going to college versus trying to start a business.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think one of the best ways to kill a startup is to overfund it. So not having enough cash isn't always a bad thing makes us really, really get to the essence of what it is we need to do So the first thing I would encourage people to think about Identify a true problem that is a real issue for folks. And if you can come up with a simple, elegant way to solve that problem, you'll get the rest of it figured out. It's a solution in search of a problem that doesn't really exist. I don't care how much money you have. I don't know you're ever going to get there.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know it's so crazy because Belcon is like the products are just ubiquitous and there's so many Belkin products, right, that I use all the time. And when you started it, as I mentioned, you really thought this was a side project that eventually maybe, if you could find the cash, you'd build a PC company. You never did because you'd have the capital to do it. If you were thinking about, you know, if you are an entrepreneur right now and you feel limited by cash I mean, what do you recommend somebody do? I mean, do you recommend that they sort of do what you did, which is look for a way in through sort of the side door?”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Desolation Hotel in South Lake Tahoe. And it all ties together because we're just into creating great experiences for folks, whether that's in tech or anything else. And so that's the common theme.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so still very active with Belkin and Foxconn who acquired Belkin, involved with a bunch of tech firms that are just getting going. And then doing a lot of work in the Lake Tahoe area and then a lot of work in. Education also.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Amazing business. Eventually, you grew, of course, into a huge brand, huge company. In 2018, it was sold for reporting more than $800 million. Amazing story. Since then, Chet, you have stepped down as CEO. Give us an update about what's been going on in your life more recently.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is kind of what you thought about doing, but you went on to start this other business which became a huge, incredible business. I've talked about this before. You were like Levi Strauss. You were selling jeans to the miners. You weren't golden gold mines, but you were selling the axes and the shovels and the tents and all those things.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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 that all the things that Belkin makes. You were, of course, first on the show back in 2019. And as always, we will put a link to that in the show notes. So check it out in that episode. We talked about how you first got started in the early 80s. You'd hang out in like mom and pop computer shops, and you realize that computers could not talk to each other. It was really hard, 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 shops and to people who needed them. And eventually that turned into a business. You were 21. You dropped out of college. You started Belk and if I remember, you really started it because you didn't have the money to start a PC.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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.”
2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2025-11-13 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT