Oct 1, 2018
Scot Hunsaker, born in St. Louis in 1963, learned early on the value of not only
working hard, but working smart. His father was a very successful entrepreneur who
worked seven days a week, twelve hours a day. “I had my own credit card and car at 16,”
Scot says, “Not because I was a spoiled kid but because I was buying things and helping
to run his companies.”
He attended Indiana University and credits that experience with teaching him how to
manage a process and get to the finish line. After getting his degree in business he
returned to the St. Louis area and worked for Mark Twain Bank for five years. “I learned
a lot about what I wanted to do during that time,” says Scot. “In a bank, you are exposed
to every kind of business and you wind up calling on companies of all shapes and sizes,
seeing their issues, etc.” He would eventually go back to work into one of his dad’s
businesses, and brought much of what he had gleaned in banking to his new role. “If I
have a gift, it’s the ability to take a process that works and re-interpret and re-deploy it to
make it current,” he says. He would buy that business, grow it significantly, and then
transfer ownership to his employees.
His current venture, Ardent, is built to help other business owners like himself figure out
how to do what he did- seamlessly transfer ownership of their companies someday to
their employees. Like many great business ideas, it was born out of his own experience
and from conversations with other entrepreneurs who needed guidance and
encouragement to help facilitate the process.
In this episode Virginia and Scot discuss:
Key Takeaways:
How to reach Scot:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scothunsaker/