DTC POD - #241 - Oren Schauble: How To Go From Product Idea To Market

DTC POD #241 - Oren Schauble: How To Go From Product Idea To Market

Blaine Bolus 00:00:06 - 00:00:46

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Ramon Berrios 00:02:10 - 00:02:34

Hello? DTC Pod. I'm excited today to have our guest Oren Shabble from Product World, and Oren keeps his hands busy with a lot of other stuff too. So, Oren, I'm excited to dive into each and every single one of those, and I'll let you go ahead and do the introduction on everything you're working on. Tell us a little bit more about yourself and what you keep yourself busy with.

Oren Schauble 00:02:34 - 00:03:11

Yeah, no problem. So look, happy to be here. Thanks for having me on the pod, I guess I'm a serial entrepreneur and product developer. Started agency side in New York, working in kind of liquor and fashion there. Ended up transitioning into a bunch of high tech jobs. My first kind of big jump was bringing the consumer drones, like camera drones, into retail globally. So we brought those to Best Buy and Fnac in France and Australia and all that and kind of fought in the kind of consumer electronics wars for a while. Then started the product development agency in Austin with some partners that's still going to this day that does complex electronics products.

Oren Schauble 00:03:11 - 00:03:54

And then after that, I did a roll up with a bunch of smaller DTC cannabis companies and Dispensaries that we brought into the public market last year. And then now I work with just a number of businesses, both kind of my own and partnered with others on their product roadmaps and bringing their products to market. I have way more projects than I should. I have my hands in all kinds of things. But I really love building and putting together different products in different niches. Right now, I've got stuff that's in women's fashion, stuff that's in surf. I'm working on things in higher end jewelry a lot in the kind of sneaker and kind of fashion end of it. Some things remaining in DTC CPG, stuff like in beverage and in cannabis related things.

Oren Schauble 00:03:54 - 00:03:58

Yeah. So just keeping the time busy and excited to connect here and talk about.

Ramon Berrios 00:03:58 - 00:04:14

Some was, you know, on my research, I found a mutual friend that you work with, colin Gwynn from Gwynn Partners. So I lived for three or four years in Austin, and I actually went out to the compound with Colin. He took me out on the boat.

Oren Schauble 00:04:14 - 00:04:33

Wakeboarding, and I was when partners started, it was the original partners were Craig, myself, and so we've been around there forever. Now they're the kind of active ones as I'm kind of doing other things. I'm still kind of silent in there, but they have a wonderful agency. Colin's a hell of a guy. Learned a lot from him about many things.

Ramon Berrios 00:04:35 - 00:04:37

Did you work on blaster stuff?