{"id":38952,"date":"2023-06-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/?p=38952"},"modified":"2023-05-31T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T18:38:09","slug":"in-other-words-with-dave-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/in-other-words-with-dave-23\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Words with Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FT-dave-june23.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FT-dave-june23.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FT-dave-june23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/FT-dave-june23-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you do at Back40? I used to get that question quite a bit when I was younger, not so much now. Apparently now I look more like an owner, founder and publisher. I blame years and years of \u201cresting small business owner face.\u201d So I was kind of surprised when that question came up at a recent event. I wanted to tell them&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m the guy that started a web design business in the dot com bust of 2000. I\u2019m the guy who cleans out the agency fridge, takes out the garbage and buys the Coffee-mate when we run out. I\u2019m the guy who provided internships for dozensof OSU, OU, UCO, OC and Francis Tuttle students. I\u2019m the<br>guy who was once told by an IRS agent, \u201cSome people just shouldn\u2019t own businesses.\u201d I\u2019m the guy who&#8217;s never missed a payroll. I\u2019m the guy who hired some amazingly talented people who have gone on to start businesses and run companies &#8211; and still stay in touch. The guy who is eternally grateful for the crew that kept the business going while I took care of my terminally ill wife and then years later when I got sick, did the same for me. The guy who invested in a building, remodeled it into a cool design studio, then made everyone remote when COVID-19 happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did I tell them instead? I told them, when I\u2019m at my best, I\u2019m an encourager, a cheerleader, a mentor, a problem solver who brings his clients a unique perspective born of decades of design experience. I\u2019m also the guy who\u2019s been called a \u201cfriend-boss,\u201d and that\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do at Back40? I used to get that question quite a bit when I was younger, not so much now. Apparently now I look more like an owner, founder and publisher. I blame years and years of \u201cresting small business owner face.\u201d So I was kind of surprised when that question came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"Issue":[407],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38953,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952\/revisions\/38953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"Issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/Issue?post=38952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}