This week’s guest is Phil Potter, founder and CEO of The Armory Incubator – a non-profit with the mission of helping veterans launch and scale startups. Fast Company magazine listed The Armory as Arizona’s contribution to its “United States of Innovation” special feature in the May, 2017 issue.
Phil earned his Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University and then received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Arizona State University. Phil shares what led to his decision to join the US Air Force where he received his commission and served for six years. Following his service in the Air Force, Phil returned to academia at ASU and found his way to an opportunity focusing on helping veterans seeking to become entrepreneurs.
Phil shares the early influences which led him to be an entrepreneur, in his own right, at an early age. From there, he discusses lessons learned from the Air Force, why it is good to be the “dumbest person in the room”, identifying the context of leadership, his connection with the book Hillbilly Elegy, and much more.
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