This is the full transcript for Episode #236 of the Wild Business Growth Podcast featuring Stan Mirzayev – Customer Service Mechanic, Co-Founder of Parts Pass. You can listen to the interview and learn more here. Please note: this transcript is not 100% accurate.
Stan Mirzayev 0:00
It’ll test you. And it has to be a passion because otherwise, you just give up and you move on to the next thing
Max Branstetter 0:21
Hello, hello, hello. Hello. Welcome back to the Wild Business Growth podcast. This is your place to hear from a new entrepreneur every single Wednesday morning who’s turning Wild ideas into Wild growth. I’m your host, Max Branstetter, Founder and Podcast Producer at MaxPodcasting. And you can email me at to save time with your high-quality podcast. This is episode 236 As in two times three equals six which is your math lesson for the day. And today’s guest is Stan Mirzayev. Stan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Parts Pass. And he’s a serial entrepreneur who has a long line of businesses and an incredible upbringing and story. steppin when he was four years old, his family moved from the Soviet Union to the US with essentially no money and needed to find jobs and establish a life here ASAP. And they have established a family of entrepreneurs and fast forward to Parts Pass, and Stan has created the new way to order car parts. It’s as simple as getting the app taking a picture of your car, you can find the car part and seconds and it gets delivered to you and you can either work on it yourself or take it to your local auto shop. In this episode, we talk the story behind all those things. Tweaking the app and tweaking your business and dealing with the rollercoaster up and downs of of being an entrepreneur and a little TMI about hot dogs. Speaking of Parts Pass, Stan is kind enough to offer a discount code for Wild listeners. That is 15% off any order $10 or more. That discount code is WBGP15
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Aaaaalrgithyyy we are here with Stan Mirzayev, Founder of parts pass serial entrepreneur in the auto space. Super cool dude with a super cool story, Stan, super coolly excited to speak with you today. How you doing today?
Stan Mirzayev 2:47
Hey, Max, it’s super cool to be here.
Max Branstetter 2:51
Wow, it’s Wow. We rehearsed that script perfectly. No, but really excited to talk about your super cool story. But before we get into the parts pest story, you just have an amazing background, you know, just use a different adjective there. And you hear about entrepreneurs that sometimes come from different countries at a young age and come to the US and kind of fall in love with that entrepreneurial spirit. And in your case, you came to the US when you were four years old. Can you give us a snapshot of what your life was like as a four year old coming to the US for the first time? Yeah, absolutely.
Stan Mirzayev 3:25
I give it up to my parents. They’re the ones that actually took initiative and picked up the family and moved us across the country or across the world there yet. In the early 90s, Soviet Union fell apart and my parents had to flee. And with just the clothing on their back and $400 they set sail to find a new life. The downside of that is my father was a very well established entrepreneurs, I guess you could say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. In that sense. My dad had multiple apartment buildings had a couple of businesses and multiple vehicles. And when he made the decision to pick up and leave, unfortunately, he couldn’t take any of that or any of the proceeds with him to America. It belonged to the government. So it was communism, and my father knew that he can rebuild. And that’s exactly what he did. He picked up everything in just a couple of suitcases $400 in his pocket, two kids a wife and started a new life for himself in Queens, New York, where he went straight into the workforce. My mom actually stayed at home and raised the kids and she went to school to learn the language. My father went straight into the workforce, and he became a mechanic specifically working overnight at a very busy taxi garage. And through the years my father really put his own personal feelings and goals aside and just kept his head down and work for I believe it was about five years before he bought his first business was in Queens, New York. And throughout Junior High School in high school, I found myself working alongside my dad. And as I got older, I actually saw the stress that my father went through. So I knew that instead of working somewhere else, I wanted to help my father. And together, we’ve actually built a couple of businesses and sold them as well left New York shortly after 911 and relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, where I currently live. So
Max Branstetter 5:32
your life and your family’s life is, this sounds like something from a movie. I mean, I just can’t imagine like everything that you went through every day. And moving to a different country with a different language is one thing, but also, you know, having $400 to your name, having to find a job make money right away, like that is a ton. Meanwhile, you’re probably like screaming and in diapers throughout all that now, but how did your dad with barely knowing any English at the time? How did he get started? Like, how did he find the mechanic job and actually start the crazy what they call it graveyard shift?
Stan Mirzayev 6:10
Yeah, the graveyard shift. So you know, immigrants really have a hard time coming here. And there’s a few programs that actually help immigrants get the ball rolling, right for the first few steps. And, for example, we were sponsored, and an organization stepped in and provided us the capital for the airline tickets that we needed. And my father, actually, this first job was selling hot dogs as a hot dog vendor. And he’s like, the person was giving him maybe $20 a day. And my dad said, No way, no, how he had a little bit of experience with vehicles. Again, you know, during the Communist Party, you weren’t able to own multiple vehicles, you had a set income, and for anyone to have new vehicles was very questionable. So he would fix cars and sell them and kind of made a profit that way under the table. So he knew that he had some sort of experience with cars. And we had a family member that said, you know, fixing cars here in the US is big money, maybe you should look into that. And just with the small amount of knowledge he had on how certain cars work, he kind of was pretty confident to go into the tax garage and apply for a position and working graveyard. It wasn’t as busy in Manhattan. So he kind of learned along the way. So it took a couple of years for him to really understand how these certain vehicles work. And just after a few years after that, he was able to take a part of an engine rebuild it in just a few hours. So he was one of the top producers in his in his environment of repairs.
Max Branstetter 7:50
I’m exhausted and feel like a vampire just from hearing the hours that he works. But there’s a real beauty in that, that, yeah, the hours suck. But if it’s quieter, it does give you more time to really learn the craft. When you you and your family moved to Arizona and your dad started the auto shop, which you ultimately, you know, became part of an owner and you learned a ton there as well, at what point along that journey, did you yourself first to find that spark of interest in the auto space,
Stan Mirzayev 8:22
I have gained an appreciation for the automotive industry because I changed my perspective on it, right. So it’s not just I’m going in there, I’m fixing a car and I’m going home. Through the years I started really developing a relationship with our clients. And I found myself giving them you know, financial advice, I found myself being their psychologist where I’m giving them life experience advices because at that point I was in my early 20s. And growing up in a big city like New York City, you really grow very quick, and you get to experience a lot. So coming to Phoenix, I was fortunate enough to grow up in a big city. But I took that with me into Phoenix, Arizona where things weren’t as quick. So my perspective, like I said, changed. And I started getting an appreciation because I was in a position to help people. And that really made the world of a difference. So I would show up at work, I would have clients come in and I would figure out a way whether it’d be a payment plan or going off of urgency of what needed to be repaired. I found myself giving back. And that was the most valuable part for me over the years of providing good service and providing a relationship to the community.
Max Branstetter 9:35
And that customer service like you can just feel that customer service has been a priority to go over the top and you know, it’s not enough to work around the clock as a mechanic and a business owner and auto shop that you got to work full time as a psychologist as well. So I like the philosophy there. And at a certain point you in addition to the physical autoshop you had you started parts detect, which is a little kind of foreshadowing to parts paths. So parts detect what what was the biggest thing that you learn from starting kind of a step. I don’t know if you want to call it adjacent or supplemented like an additional business in the auto space.
Stan Mirzayev 10:16
Yeah. So through the years, I, as much as I love the automotive space, I’ve always wanted to venture out and the garages was my backbone, but I wanted to try different things. So I would go actually had a portion of a pawn shop, and I got my real estate license. And I was doing flipping and I also had my mortgage origination license. So I would do loans, right. So I’ve tried different industries. But for me, nothing really clicked. And I said, let me start looking at the automotive industry, because I know that so well. And let me see if I can improve just a small little piece of it. And then I started asking myself a question, if I was to improve any part of it, what part would I improve, and the logistics behind part procurement part sourcing was such a headache for everyone involved, right? Because you have five to six different local suppliers, like the AutoZone, the Pep Boys of the world. And to find a replacement part, I would have to call these suppliers and I would be placed on hold. And then I have to go into the script of here’s the year that make the model, here’s the engine size, do you have this part, and they would go on their computer, and they would look it up, and they would tell me whether or not they had it. And then they would tell me what the price is. And then they will give me the warranty. And I will always shop around because at the end of the day, it trickles down to the customer. For me, the most important thing is to provide customers with great service, a great product and the price structure that can really fit their pockets, right. So I started calculating the amount of time that I would spend calling these different suppliers and I would average 10 to 15 minutes per car, and working on average six cars a day, that was over an hour of my time completely wasted. And I was like maybe I can create something that can source replacement parts from all these different suppliers. And the idea was born for parts detect. And what we did with Parsa. Tech is we created an MVP, which is a minimal viable product, just something that we sketched in and I recruited my cousin Alex, who’s our lead developer. And actually he went to hacker Academy school to learn coding because of this idea. So we put we put together MVP, and we went door to door selling to these large fortune 500 companies telling them, Hey, here’s the idea. Here’s the problem. And here’s how we’re going to solve it. And slowly but surely, they started signing up. And then we had five of the nation’s largest parts suppliers as our partners. So a mechanic would use our free application to first of all decode a vehicle, right. So we had a VIN scanner that allowed somebody to take a picture of the VIN, and our system would decode that year make model and engine size. And then we integrated all these different parts suppliers on one single platform. So you would look for a radiator, for example. And then we would show you which supplier had it in stock, how much that price was what the warranty is and about five different images. So you can do a shop comparison, a marketplace, for example, on one single search, which will take about 10 seconds, and you can place an order directly from the app and have it delivered to your shop. And that’s where we found success. We alleviated a huge bottleneck for the hundreds of 1000s of mechanic shops across the country.
Max Branstetter 13:33
There’s no greater motivator than saving time. I mean, no one likes to waste time. And so I think starting a business around saving that time, it’s fantastic place to be. So let’s get to saving more time and this time with the end consumer in mind. And so let’s talk parts paths. So there’s some similarities between parts of tech and parts paths. And I think this is a super cool new business to get into and, again can save so much time and energy for for consumers. Where did the aha moment happened for you that, hey, we can we’re doing this room mechanics already. We can do something like this for consumers,
Stan Mirzayev 14:15
dealing with customers on a day to day basis. They’re always trying to save money at the end of the day. I understand that because a vehicle is the second biggest investment a person makes the first being their home primary residence. So I totally understood that. Before we started thinking how we can bring value. I knew that the general public wanted an easier way to source replacement parts. And the aha moment came when I would go and pick up replacement parts from my local parts supplier and I would see the line of consumers waiting to speak to the counter representative and everyone was just it was a very uncomfortable sexual ration, right? So a consumer is waiting in line, and then they approach the counter person, the counter person can have a really bad day. And they’re projecting that on the consumer, which is just wrong. Secondly, the consumer has to know, vehicle specifications. And if you don’t know it, then it’s make things that much more friction involved. Secondly, sometimes the parts are not in stock. And we’re just talking on a local brick and mortar, you know, just go to your local parts suppliers. And then we’re talking about next we’re going to pivot into the internet sales of things, right, you have the Amazon, you have the eBay, and then you have the worldwide web. So you really don’t know what you’re getting when you’re buying from eBay or from Amazon, the search engine there is just not great, right? So the search engine, the algorithm will pick up certain key words, but it won’t fit that part with that vehicle, the the chances are really low that you’re going to get something that fits precisely. So we knew that we can bring innovation bring value to the consumer, a direct to consumer approach, where we can bring value by creating an easier way for them to search for parts. It’s not just that we knew there’s a couple of different things that I stated that we have to bring, we have to bring a better user experience. We have to bring quality replacement parts, and we have to give them the price structure. That makes sense, right? So taking all that into consideration, we knew we had something and we knew that we can bring all that in a nutshell to the general public. And that’s when parts pass was born.
Max Branstetter 16:26
It’s a beautiful birth, checking out your website, checking out your app, I think there’s, there’s beauty in that simplicity there. The fact that you can take a picture of your car or part of your car, and the apple will figure it out for you. Where was the insight to make things so simple for the consumer?
Stan Mirzayev 16:46
Yeah, so when when we gathered my team and I, so I’m, quote unquote, the industry expert. And then I have my chief technology officer. And we’re like thinking okay for for a person to use is where’s the market going? Right. So it’s all about simplicity, just a couple of clicks, or a couple of pictures. And the system should really take it one step further. So my chief technology officer, he’s the, he’s the one that said, you know, when we have artificial intelligence available at our fingertips, I really think that we should embed that into the app. And that’s where we built the parts pass platform around, we knew that we wanted to have aI embedded in it. And it took a while for us to get that software to implement it to test it to make sure that it works. And we implemented it, we launched it, and it was just crickets. It was crickets man, you would think that people would go crazy over this technology that they want an easier way to search for parts. And the first thing is, let me just take a picture of my car. And we were surprised, super surprised where when we started looking at the numbers, and there was just maybe one or two a day. And we’re like something is not right. And I’m like, the whole time, I’m thinking from a user’s perspective, I’m thinking about the person that’s either on the couch, in their bedroom, in their office, they don’t have accessibility to their car, right. So when like, we need to embed a different option, we need to give people more options. So option two was to have the traditional drop down menu. So you can go in there and select the year make model engine size, and then the trim. And then once we implemented that, then the numbers started growing very quickly, on a day to day basis, right? So we’re like, Aha, we found the problem. The problem is that people, maybe they’re not ready for it, maybe they don’t want to take a picture of their car, whatever it may be, there was a huge difference in the amount of people that started using the app because they had the accessibility of that traditional, as I call it drop down menu,
Max Branstetter 18:53
the one of the icons of the internet, the drop down menu, what did that testing and learning process look like when he started diving into that AI and tech side,
Stan Mirzayev 19:02
as a startup founder, every single option or every single version of the app that you release, you’re just grounded down, and you’re pulling your hair out, because you want it to succeed, because you put so much time and energy into it. Right? Not only your own, but the whole team is very much involved. And everyone puts their time and energy into it. It can be weeks, it can be months, and then you launch it and then you’re waiting. And then the worst thing that can happen is nothing at all right? The best thing is that people start interacting with it. And then you actually get some sort of a feedback. So that feedback is so valuable, especially in the beginning stages where people are telling you pretty much what works, what doesn’t what they want, what they don’t want, and you have to listen, adapt and move very quickly. That
Max Branstetter 19:55
sounds like a tattoo. I should get this Listen, adapt and Very quickly, I don’t have any tattoos, but it’s got a good ring to it. And I mean, I could just picture you like slamming your head against the desk over and over again, because it is like it’s anticlimactic until you really do start to see like, you know, the numbers tick up and and users start to use it and use it at the time of this recording how many versions of the app have you released.
Stan Mirzayev 20:22
So for us, it’s crucial to release new versions on a weekly basis. So we’re probably at, I’d say about 16 versions that we’ve released. So far, in the middle of that we’ve had some problems that it took longer than we expected to solve. Things happen, right? So you prepare for the worst, but when it happens, I mean, it gets even worse than the worst. So there’s certain times where you need to really ground yourself and understand what the mission is. And never keep your eyes off the prize. Because the universe has a way of testing, your dedication, your devotion to your craft. And I believe, wholeheartedly that if you just keep pushing, that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and successes, they’re not too far away from that.
Max Branstetter 21:13
How do you like in those moments when the universe is saying like, Hey, we’re gonna screw with you did? How do you stay committed and kind of push on and stay motivated in those moments?
Stan Mirzayev 21:25
Yeah, the universe definitely does. And if it’s not the universe, then you can have your, your significant other or you have your team members or you have, if you have investors, right, you have a board, there’s so many different moving parts. And as a founder, you have to really find Zen, you have to find a way to shut the noise out. And really focus on yourself because mental health is such an important factor. For me, there’s a lot, there’s a couple of ways that I just removed myself, because there’s been multiple times where I question, is it really worth it? Do I really want to do this? Do I need to pursue it? Will it even work, I removed myself from the situation. And one of the quotes that’s always rent free in my head is this too shall pass. So when I find myself, at my lowest low, I remind myself that this too shall pass and I get back up, and then move on. And I tell myself, give yourself 24 hours, if you still feel the same way tomorrow, then look at it like then you can dig into it. But most of the time, I’m like, Okay, I was just more emotional at that point. And I want to continue, I want to move forward, because I don’t remember the mission. And then at the same time that this too shall pass, when things are going great. It gives me an opportunity to just pause and soak it all in. Because these are the moments that I really appreciate. And of course, you can have the great without the bad and the bad without the great. So it kind of comes in, in different forms. But at the same time, having that, quote in the back of my head, I live rent free. And I recite it to myself multiple times a day. It’s the driving force that allows me to take another step and take another step and take another step. So that’s kind of what works for me.
Max Branstetter 23:18
Yeah, I think it was Tim Ferriss and four hour workweek, said that, like 99.999% of things that can happen on a workday like as bad as it feels, or like as big or like a bummer of a thing that happened at work feels like or business deal went wrong, something like that vast majority of things like in the grand scheme of things when you when you zoom out, you know, if they’re not going to make or break your business, they’re not a huge deal in your business or your life. Like I think that approach of giving it a day. You know, breathing is a phenomenal way to go about it. I’m also laughing because you use the term moving parts and said there’s a lot of moving parts where your business is literally moving parts.
Stan Mirzayev 24:05
That it is yeah, we have we have 27 distribution centers across the country, we have over 2.1 million parts. And there’s a lot of moving parts. And especially I mean, that’s just on the on the front end of things, right, the back end is a completely different beast. We have fitment data. For vehicles, we have fitment data for parts, and let alone that AI is an amazing piece of software that we have that allows you to take a picture of pretty much any side of your vehicle, whether it’s the back side, the front, the quarter panel, fender area, so it’s really robust and it’s pretty impressive. I’m not gonna lie about that. So there’s a lot of moving parts on the back end on the front end with shipping and everything else involved. So there’s there’s quite a bit yes.
Max Branstetter 24:54
You don’t need to lie at all. It’s it is very impressive. I’m just trying to wrap my head around the size of it. I mean, you mentioned And 27 distribution centers millions of parts. How did you scale up the business to the point that we will I guess one on the on the business sense of the business can operate at such a large level. And then to on your own sense that you’re like, not going crazy trying to keep all these things in track.
Stan Mirzayev 25:18
Don’t let me fool you. I’m a little crazy. I have my ways, I guess you can say. And one of my favorite quotes. Another one is by Ben Horowitz. That said, as a startup, CEO, I slept like a baby, which means that I woke up multiple times throughout the night. And I cried, right. So that just landed with me really well. Now, I don’t cry. But at the same time, I do toss and turn because I’m wondering, you know, what the next step is? Or what’s going on? Or how many orders do we have? Or how many new users? How can we grow? How can we bring innovation. So taking all that in consideration, it’s something that I again, it’s more of a passion, right? So anyone that’s building a business or, or a startup at that, if this is more of a fly by night company, it’s one thing, but it’ll test you. And it has to be a passion, because otherwise, you just give up and you move on to the next thing. I’ve done that in the past in my early 20s, where I thought I found something, I did it for a few months. And that was like, Well, you know, the flame burned out with this is completely different. If the flame is burning out, I find the gasoline and I’m constantly watering it and making sure that the flame is always lit, I guess you can say
Max Branstetter 26:38
I’m a big fan of your use of quotes, but also your use of analogies as well. If I could think of an analogy to put into perspective, how wonderful that is, it when you look at parts pass as a whole. I mean, you’ve seen awesome growth there. And just the journey from idea to how large scale it is, is is pretty crazy. Besides trying out, you know the different features of the app, and like the tech side of it, what would you say has been the most effective ways that you’ve been able to grow parts pass
Stan Mirzayev 27:08
a great product on its own, will pick up momentum. But in the beginning stages, no one hears about it, no one knows what it is. So we have an internal marketing team that understands our mission, understands the struggle themselves. And after all, they own their own cars, and they went to the dealership, and the dealership has told them, hey, you need a new cabin air filter, it’s $165. And they’re like what I can get on Parks pass 10 bucks, right? So they understand it, I guess they want to pass along the message that they went through the same problems, and that there’s a solution. So for us, our marketing team, which is really great. It’s all women, right. And so for us, they do a fantastic job of connecting with women with men, and just everyone in general, because if we’re being honest here, there’s a lot of, I guess it’s more predatory when a woman goes into a repair shop or to a parts house. So it’s a fairly male dominant industry. It’s one of those things that we want to make it as easy as possible for the general public to use our app. But specifically for those that have that stigma or have that uneasy feeling when they go into a repair shop, or they go into a parts house, we just want to make it easy for everyone, including women.
Max Branstetter 28:34
Absolutely. And I think there’s just so many unknowns, when you are someone who’s taken their car in here paired or knows that you need a new part, something like that. Like there’s there’s so many unknowns in that whole process. I think anything you can do to make the consumer feel more at ease, feel more confident, feel like they actually you know, are like controlling the process of like the guy in in charge of the actual final product that gets there like that is super valuable. So it’s it’s been amazing journey with with parts paths, I think it’s, as you said, I’m sure he can get a little bit crazy, but it’s an awesome thing to build a business around. And it’s it’s just inspiring to hear its growth.
Stan Mirzayev 29:18
We’re seeing a lot of do it yourselfers that are using the application. But what’s even interesting, even more so is that we’re seeing this new new side, do it and for me, so people are going out there, whether they’re having the vehicle diagnosed by a repair shop, or something that’s very plain sight. People are buying parts and having their local repair shop and stole it for them. Or they’re having one of these mobile technicians are mobile repaired. services come directly to their home and they provide that part so a consumer would buy for example an alternator and again by going through a parts pass, right we’ve proven I had quality parts, we provide OEM, or namebrand parts like Denso, AC Delco. Some of these name brand parts, so that way they know that they’re getting a quality replacement part metal on the price structure is just fantastic. And then they can have their mechanic install it. And more and more repair shops are accepting parts that a customer brings in. Because for them, it’s gonna be monetized on the labor. And that way a consumer just brings their own part. And I’m perfectly content and happy with making just that to the four to six hour labor, and everyone’s happy.
Max Branstetter 30:39
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Stan Mirzayev 31:32
Let’s do it. All right, let’s
Max Branstetter 31:33
go wild. What is something most people would not know about owning or part owning a pawn shop?
Stan Mirzayev 31:42
The amount of interest that builds up very quickly. I would suggest against that
Max Branstetter 31:50
interest you mean interest on the financial sense or interest in the like people wanting to participate? No, no. In
Stan Mirzayev 31:57
the in the financial sense? Yeah. Okay, they charge way too much for interest on on valuable. So I it’s one of those things like last resort.
Max Branstetter 32:09
Makes sense, literally, or it takes away sense.
Stan Mirzayev 32:12
What is nice, another one thinks,
Max Branstetter 32:16
what is a weird talent or a party trick, you have something that you’re really good at, but it has no impact on your business whatsoever.
Stan Mirzayev 32:23
I have a party trick. So if I’m drinking a can of Coke or a can of beer, I let maybe there’s just maybe 10% of liquid in there. And then I tilted on its side. And the weight distribution of the liquid allows the can to kind of hover at a 60 degree angle. It’s pretty.
Max Branstetter 32:42
That’s awesome. Yeah, I remember when we used to do that. I think I’ve I’ve done it before, but I was always scared that it was gonna like you know, fall over lose your drink. But I remember in school growing up like that became a really big thing for a while. I haven’t heard about that so long. That’s awesome. That’s good. Always. Always here to entertain Stan. What is something your dad told you about being a hot dog vendor besides besides it not paying well enough? What’s something about his experience as a hot dog vendor that still sticks with you to this day?
Stan Mirzayev 33:15
Oh my god, he told me that the individual that allowed him to shadow him, dropped a whole stack of hot dogs on the floor, and then picked it up and proceeded to put it into the boiler and just cook it and distributed. So my father was so disgusted at the individual first and foremost, and his business practice. My dad was only there for one day and said this is not for me. I’m done.
Max Branstetter 33:41
Oh my god, I I knew where that story was going. I don’t blame him. That’s yeah, let’s let’s let’s hope the fryer boiler, whatever you call them, that you put out those. Let’s hope that did a lot to take that bacteria. And now those hot dogs still, they might be unsalted this day. But last one, what is your favorite lesson that your parents have taught you?
Stan Mirzayev 34:05
You know, watching my parents. What they instilled in me is, first of all, strong work ethic, right? Keep your head down, work hard. Never do anything illegal. And that alone will be valuable for you. Secondly, is leave your emotions at the door. It’s one of the things like you make decisions in life. And emotions can really deter you from what’s important. And you might regret the things you say or the things you do based on your emotions. So my mom is one of the teachers that taught me leave your emotions at the door, give it 24 hours and if you feel as passionately about whatever just happened, then pursue it. But aside from that, don’t let your emotions cloud your judgment. That is
Max Branstetter 34:58
awesome or cloudy. either beautiful cloudy way or not cloudy crystal clear Skyway. To wrap up, Stan, this has been awesome. Thank you so much. Just really appreciate all you do and join in today sharing the parts past story. Where is the best place for people to try out parts past as well as connect with you online?
Stan Mirzayev 35:18
Yeah, so currently parts pass is available on the Apple App Store. And its parts pass. You can also go on our website, which is parks pass dot app, a PP. And follow us on social media, which is parts pass and you can find me on social media on LinkedIn, or on Instagram. Stan, underscore founder,
Max Branstetter 35:43
founder stand perfect. And then last thing, final thoughts I know you’ve shared some life lessons, you’ve shared some some quotes. Maybe there’s another quote, some sort of just final one line word of wisdom to send us off here, send us home.
Stan Mirzayev 35:56
Always continue to pursue your passions. Never give up. Always showing up is key. And one step at a time will really help you grow as an individual
Max Branstetter 36:11
one step at a time just like one part at a time moving parts. Stephan, thank you so much for sharing the parts past story, your wild and wildly cool story and background and everything in between. And thank you our listeners for tuning in to another episode. Stan is the man and is offering a 15% discount on orders $10 or more. For wild listeners, you can do that in the Parts Pass app. The discount code is wBG p 15. As in wild Business Growth podcast, one five, that’s WBGP15. And you can do that in the parks pass app for 15% off any order $10 or more. If you want to hear more wild stories like this one, make sure to follow the wild Business Growth podcast on your favorite podcast app and tell a friend about the podcast and then quiz each other on cars and car parts and car movies. Why not? You can also find us on Goodpods where they’re good pod. And for any help with podcast production, You can learn more at MaxPodcasting.com and sign up for the podcasting to the max newsletter. That’s at MaxPodcasting.com/newsletter Until next time, let your business run wild bring on the bongos.
