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Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
- ▶ 0:41 Guy Raz He's the founder of Belkin International. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:18 Guy Raz You know, it's so crazy because Belkin is like, it's, 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Guy Raz You're on with Chet Pipkin, founder of Belkin.
- ▶ 18:59 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Chet Pipkin, founder of Belkin International, and we are taking your calls. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:31 Guy Raz Chet, you could even put Belkin peripherals and cables in these bags.
- ▶ 31:38 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking your calls with Chet Pipkin, the founder of Belkin International. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Guy Raz Chet, if you could go back, right, knowing everything you know now, back to when you were 21, you were starting Belkin, you were trying to figure this out, and you, you could give yourself a piece of advice that you now know, what do you… 2 times in the scene
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Belkin International: Chet Pipkin
- ▶ 2:04 Guy Raz But there is a good chance that you've heard of the company he founded. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Chet Pipkin Dive into Belkin on a full-time basis, and, uh, I chose the latter. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:31 Chet Pipkin And then after we got married, she, um, came to work at Belkin, and, um, I remember I got a call from a guy.
- ▶ 28:12 Chet Pipkin And he took a loan out on the, um, house, the very house that Belkin had gotten its, um, beginning days in, yep. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:19 Guy Raz So, the early days of Belkin were up and down financially, especially because the entire operation was self-financed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:06 Guy Raz So, by 1991, you move Belkin headquarters to Compton, California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:01 Guy Raz Did you ever have any, any problems, like, convincing people to come and work with, with you at Belkin because, you know, because Compton kind of had a reputation as, as sort of a tough place, a dangerous place. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:18 Guy Raz At this point, like, by the time we hit the turn of the millennium, Belkin, you know, you guys start to move, of course, you've moved out of just cables, you move into a huge product line of mouses, keyboards, laptop cases, surge… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 Guy Raz So I guess in the past year, um, in 2018, um, Belkin sold to a subsidiary of Foxconn, a company called FIT, for, uh, reportedly more than eight hundred million dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:36 Chet Pipkin So I would hear feedback from my friends, uh, and people that worked at Belkin, where both my mom and my dad would pull people off to the side and say, hey, is Chet doing ok? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:55 Guy Raz That's Chet Pipkin, founder of Belkin. 4 times in the scene