Ep. 94 Photographer at 13 to Selling 500M Ear Plugs Worldwide to Consumer Product Leader, Doug Pick, Founder & CEO, DAP Ventures

On this episode of Investors & Operators, Jordan sits down with Doug Pick, Founder & CEO, DAP Ventures. Together, they discuss:

How Doug went from a photographer for Motley Crue at 13, to getting into an industry he basically had no knowledge of, to distributing 500M state of art ear plugs worldwide through known brand stores
Riding the market tides of manufacturing consumer products
Advice he had for entrepreneurs interested in selling

...and so much more.

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For 26 years, Doug Pick lived the American dream as the CEO of a leading vertically integrated consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. Having successfully exited, he’s now thrilled to be able to apply his experience, expertise and network to help others turn their dreams into reality.

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Investors & Operators

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The M&A market can be boring, but everyone has a story. The Investors & Operators podcast is about discovering the stories people were holding back, didn’t know how to tell, or forgot about. The goal is simple: fresh, authentic storytelling to bring people together in the M&A community.

With over 1M organic views and counting on LinkedIn, 51 Labs is disrupting the M&A market through the use of videography and content creation. In a market that longs for authenticity, 51 Labs helps strengthen your brand and tell your story. From concept to distribution, we strategize and produce thoughtful content to be used across a multitude of channels, to help you stand out in an otherwise traditionally boring market.

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Jordan Selleck

Founder. Recovering Investment Banker. 3x Entrepreneur. Philz Coffee Enthusiast.

Jordan Selleck is a recovering investment banker turned 3x entrepreneur. While teaching English in China, Jordan met an investment banker in a bar and before he knew it he’d spent six years in cross-border investment banking advising global corporates and private equity firms on M&A deals up to $250 million.

As much as Jordan loved investment banking, he always knew he was meant to do something more. In 2016, Jordan founded Debtmaven, a deal management platform for debt financing in the lower middle market. It was while he was marketing Debtmaven on LinkedIn that Jordan found his true passion: building meaningful relationships in the lower middle market.

Seeing over 50% of Debtmaven’s $450million+ in deals come from LinkedIn, he realized he’d found an untapped market and began his journey with LinkedIn consulting. Dozens of clients and a handful of extraordinarily talented employees later, 51 Labs is a thriving marketing agency for the lower middle market that produces captivating content and generates organic traffic across LinkedIn.

Jordan was born in San Diego, grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a fourth-generation private pilot, SCUBA dives, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and is a husband and father of 2.