This is the full transcript for Episode #249 of the Wild Business Growth Podcast featuring Tripp and Lee Phillips – Brick Binders, Inventors of Le-Glue. You can listen to the interview and learn more here. Please note: this transcript is not 100% accurate.
Lee Phillips 0:00
He’s sitting there with the phone on his chest and not even putting the controller down and he looks up and goes “Shark Tank.”
Max Branstetter 0:22
Hello from Podcast Movement ’23 in Denver I’m recording this from the Rockies not actually in the Rockies pretty close to I can see the Rockies. 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 249 and today’s guest is actually guests today’s guests are Tripp and Lee Phillips, the Son-Father duo who are the creators of Le-Glue. Le-Glue is a super cool super sticky, not actually super sticky, slightly sticky solution that is a non permanent adhesive for plastic building blocks toys such as Lego, really, really cool story and in this episode, we dive into their Shark Tank journey trip and his sister at the time were the youngest ever people to get a deal on Shark Tank. We talked the behind the scenes there a little expectations vs. reality there. How to create a culture of invention, even within your own family and the coolest things Tripp has ever created with LEGOs. It is Tripp and Lee and get your popcorn read-y. Enjoooooooy the shoooooow!
Aaaaalrightyyyyyy we’re here with Tripp and Lee Phillips, the wonderful men behind Le-Glue, one of the coolest products and something that I truly wished I had grown up and lots and lots of memories with LEGOs and bricks of all sorts of stuff. But Tripp and Lee, the new Abbott and Costello, How’re you guys doing it today? How you guys doing? Thanks for joining today?
Tripp Phillips 2:13
Good you very well.
Max Branstetter 2:15
Good, good, real excited to speak to you. And of course, we’re gonna get to like Lou and all involved in that story. But before that I’m inspired anytime I talk to an inventor. And I think it’s especially unique when you have seemingly a household that inventions come out of so you must have done something right. And creating an environment to you know, inspire family members to create inventions and come up with ideas like this. Was there anything trip where you were at an even younger age than when you invented this that kind of just interested you about inventing things or maybe starting a business one day.
Tripp Phillips 2:52
I mean, my dad hadn’t been had invented a lot of stuff in the past, like he had probably three that he would always tell me about when I was growing up. And I knew that he was decently smart. And I wanted to do the same as him. So I always kind of wanted to invent some and then I like Shark Tank separately from that. Because I thought it was an interesting show, and I love watching it. But that that came a few years after we did the business I didn’t do because of Shark Tank, but
Lee Phillips 3:22
he enjoyed always watching Shark Tank. So once a week, you know had a viable product. You know, in the mix, we decided to you know, fulfill one of his childhood dreams of getting getting applied to the Shark Tank.
Max Branstetter 3:37
Yeah, it’s pretty cool. It didn’t waste much time there. What sort of inventions did you have Lee, you know, before Le-Glue came into the mix.
Lee Phillips 3:47
You know, I had a couple of previous ones and got stifled as a as a younger inventor. I was in the 16 1718 year old range when I started doing stuff. And I had a couple of products. I figured out quickly that patents were really expensive. And I thought you had to have a patent to sell this stuff. You know, it was my mindset. And we ended up getting blocked a little bit by the patent office on some stuff that I hadn’t been at a blanket that was very similar to what you see is the Snuggie and fit over your head and you could wear it and wear it to ball games and put your feet in it pull it up, and it would stay stay put. And we ended up selling many, many 1000s of them. But since the patent didn’t go through, I kind of just dropped it after a while and then the Snuggie came out. I’m not saying they copied me but hey, and then I had a couple in the golf industry. I’m a big golfer, and I invented the cover that goes over the golf cart that you can play in cold weather and you zip yourself in and out of it. And I didn’t have enough money to fund my first order. So I brought in a partner who then within about two months stole the whole business from me. So I’ve had a couple of you know, good Veterans that didn’t work out so well. From the standpoint of business acumen. And when Tripp came to me with this thought I had enough bad experience, I knew how to push him forward in the right way.
Max Branstetter 5:13
And that’s a roller coaster of businesses. I think so much excitement there. But then I don’t I don’t know what it is about you leave. And I think everybody’s out to steal your business. So you better watch out.
Lee Phillips 5:22
It seems that way. Yes, sir.
Max Branstetter 5:25
But that definitely, you mentioned there’s tons you learned through that. But how important was it to both you to get that patent and get that patent locked down when you started Le-Glue?
Tripp Phillips 5:36
I mean, I really wanted to get a patent because of course, I didn’t like as a kid, you kind of blow things out of the water. So whenever I was heard that there was something that I could get to stop people from stealing my invention, I really wanted to get it because I thought it would be like a really big issue. So immediately, I didn’t want anybody to steal it. And I’ve heard from him that he had his stolen. So it was a pretty, like, I would say within a year of inventing it, we were already starting the process.
Max Branstetter 6:07
So let’s let’s get to Le-Glue. So for anybody who’s not familiar with it, you can imagine that it’s, it might have something to do with the Lego world, or Lego blocks or whatever your block of choices. But I think it’s I almost think of it like as a short term adhesive, like how post it notes are, like how, you know, you can put stuff together through adhesive. But you can also you know, it’s not the end of the world. It’s not like super Gorilla Glue, or whatever it’s called where it’s stuck there forever. So it’s really cool aspects of your product where, you know, it fortifies the the structures, the toys you’re building, but also you can wash it off with warm water. So that’s a really cool mix a really cool distinction. Tripp, where did this idea first come about for Le-Glue?
Tripp Phillips 6:51
in third grade, my teacher told me that I could either write a paper, or I could come up with an invention. And I was in third grade. So of course, I didn’t want to write a paper. And I went to my dad and asked him how I could come up with an invention. And he said, to find a problem and then think of a solution. And I was just I was playing with my Legos that afternoon. I had an airplane. And I’ve tried to land it on the floor, and it broke. So then I was thinking, well, I need some the holidays together. So I went and talked to him. And we started talking for a few minutes. And he was like, that actually is a pretty good idea. So we pursued it for the next few weeks trying to come up with a formula and stuff.
Max Branstetter 7:32
That’s so perfect that that happened. They say you know, there can be blessings and disguises but blessings in disguise. I don’t know the right way to say that plural. But that’s incredible that that happens. So soon after you got that assignment. And I’m totally with you, I think no matter what age you are coming up with an invention is much more exciting than writing an essay. So yes, obviously you had the part of it that was for the school project. But what were the like the first initial steps and actually turning like glue into like, Okay, this isn’t just an idea like this is a real, you know, tangible solution.
Tripp Phillips 8:06
Well, my teacher that the assignment was from intern my invention into international creativity contest, and then we won that. And we were getting like, an award at our city hall. And then my dad was talking to me, and we both thought that it was probably a good enough idea for us to start pursuing it as an actual business. And then that’s when all of it started. After we won that award.
Lee Phillips 8:31
Yeah, we made some products, typical solutions, adhesives, our industry I work at, I’m a laboratory director here in our town. And so I know a lot of folks are our world is for covering. And obviously with floor covering, there’s all kinds of glues you have to use to hold it down. So I had contacts and folks that I knew we could talk to to get components and materials from so we were able to build some prototypes and just kind of play with them. And we really weren’t intending on selling anything at that point. So once we won the contest, or once trip won the contest, I’d say we
Max Branstetter 9:09
try not trying to steal all his credit.
Lee Phillips 9:11
I want nothing My name’s on nothing.
Tripp Phillips 9:12
definitely helped a lot.
Lee Phillips 9:15
So we picked up it was viable and thought, Well, we’ll see we’ll we’ll try Amazon. And that’s when Amazon, you know, you could get on there pretty easy. And so we jumped on amazon store, built a website and started selling them and saw that it was, you know, at least reasonable. I gave trip 1000 bucks, and he paid me back in about four weeks. So we were in good shape.
Max Branstetter 9:38
That’s a good loan there and good loan payback. That formula. Lee, I think you’re in the perfect spot. Been working in the lab to be familiar with even knowing where to start in terms of creating glue. But what went into like, how much testing did you do? How much creating glue did you make before you came up with a formula that you felt pretty good about?
Lee Phillips 9:57
As far as iterations it was really about the third or fourth iteration that we played with your when I talked to guys like at 3am, or DuPont that I’ve made some phone calls to. And I told him I was like, this is opposite of what you normally would be doing. We weren’t glued to release, not to hold forever. But there was some ideas and thought processes of what, what kind of materials at work. So we had it pretty locked down within a few days. And then I let Tripp build some stuff. And his job was to break it. And we’ve got devices here in the laboratory that measure strength, breaking strength, breaking loads. So we were able to put numbers to the reality of what we knew to be true. So not only do we have real life data as far as him playing with it, but also had technical data from our force units to break this stuff apart. So he was satisfied that it worked well enough. And we were satisfied that it would show proficiency and in the technical acumen, and move forward from that point.
Max Branstetter 11:01
In the trip, you might be the only person in history that has the assignment for work slash school to play with Legos and also try to destroy Legos. I think that’s a fun combination there.
Tripp Phillips 11:12
Yeah, it did turn out really fun. But I was still in third grade whenever we Yeah,
Lee Phillips 11:17
it’s still in third grade with that timeframe. So yeah, he liked breaking stuff.
Max Branstetter 11:21
Third grade, and for and we were talking before the show, for perspective, you’re in 11th grade now. So you’ve really, you know, grown up like had a good good chunk of your childhood with this business. So we’ll, we’ll get to that. And in a little bit, but you got you got the formula piece, you got the kind of the distinction of being strong glue, but also not permanent glue. And then you got the sales side, as you alluded to. So in terms of actually selling it, I mean, there’s a number of ways to get listed on Amazon and start selling that route. But in terms of like, the marketing side of it, how did you start to get the word out about this really clever creation?
Tripp Phillips 11:59
When did the commercial close? Yeah, we did a commercial we did a commercial at like the I was in fourth grade. And that was probably the first thing that we did to try to, like, get our name out there. And it was run on like local channels, but that’s the only commercial leg lose effort, like, filmed individually. And then after that, we started making YouTube videos with a character called Lego man. It was me and my sister were like, controlling a bunch of Lego people. And like, stuff.
Max Branstetter 12:31
Yeah, I’ve seen all over your site and your videos. I’m a huge LEGO Batman fan. I know, you’ve added more characters to the mix as well. But I think that’s that’s something that’s it just resonates really well with people because it has such a homemade and like creative feel to it. How did you get the idea to come up with these characters to like, bring life to the business like
Tripp Phillips 12:51
that? I mean, I played with Legos a lot back then. And so like, I was always building stuff, and then he, it was easy came up with the app, there was
Lee Phillips 13:03
some of it. Yeah, but you we knew that, you know, social media. And that, you know, while it seems like not that long ago, it was seven or eight years ago, it was like a lot of social media wasn’t as popular as it is today. So we tried to get something to, you know, at least just get a presence out there and make it visible to the general public in some way and try to convey the issue of not breaking down when you play with your stuff.
Max Branstetter 13:30
Yeah, I think you have a talent and video production as well. And maybe, I mean, you know, there’s a Lego Movie out there. There shouldn’t be a whole Lego Movie or movie franchise out there. That was the goal. Like LEGO Batman, I think,
Lee Phillips 13:43
you know, he actually, while he was on Shark Tank, you don’t see every bit of the interview. And one of the things he said what Laurie didn’t know about Legos breaking apart and stuff and didn’t know about the Lego Lego Movie? So when she said something about like question he went, I am the answer to Kragle! And never heard because she didn’t even know what it was. So it was a firm believer in the Lego movies for sure. From when he was a kid. Yeah.
Max Branstetter 14:15
So that’s perfect. Let’s dive into Shark Tank. So, again, you’re at a very early age strip to be on the show. Do you know you and your sister like were you some of the youngest people to ever be on the show?
Tripp Phillips 14:28
I don’t know that specific
Lee Phillips 14:29
at that point. They were the youngest at that point. Now there’s been younger since but yeah, I guess how dare they youngest to make a deal that was was what it was. They might have been a younger person that showed up.
Max Branstetter 14:41
That’s quite the resume booster. But that it’s just seems like an incredible experience overall. And you see you hear so many amazing stories from Shark Tank, but also some scary are stories that sometimes the deals just don’t pan out. But for your experience. First of all, what was what was the process of Act? Really getting on the show and like finding out that, oh my god, we’re, we’re gonna be on this show that I’ve loved watching my whole life.
Tripp Phillips 15:06
My one of my dad’s friends told him about an open call that was gonna be in Atlanta for Shark Tank. So he asked me, if I wanted to memorize a speech and go down to Atlanta and stand in a really long line early in the morning, for a long time, way to try to convince one of the producers that we should be on the show. So we did that. And we waited there for four or five hours. And it was it felt like a long time because it was we were standing inside the SunTrust Stadium in that, on that turf field. We’re just waiting and chairs.
Lee Phillips 15:36
Yeah, there’s a lot of people out there. So it was it was for an especially for, you know, a 10 year old or 11 year old. That was a long time to weigh.
Max Branstetter 15:45
Definitely, I think it might have been worth it, though. I would go out on a limb and say that might have been worth it in the grand scheme of things. Yeah,
Tripp Phillips 15:51
it definitely was. The producer really liked us. And she came up to us after we were on the show and said that I know that y’all would make it from the beginning. But she didn’t tell us that at the time. So we were waiting after we did the interview for like two or three weeks. And we’re nervous because we didn’t think we’re gonna get in. And then they called us. And they walked into my room and I was playing video games. And I was just on the phone with him while I was playing video games, because I didn’t want to pause it. And then he was like, What are you? Who are you talking to? And I was like Shark Tank people.
Lee Phillips 16:21
I was mortified, to be honest. He’s sitting there with the phone on his chest, and not even putting the controller down. And he looks at and goes, “Shark Tank.” Why don’t you come get me? But yeah, it was it was a cool customer back then.
Max Branstetter 16:40
What video game was that, by the way?
Tripp Phillips 16:43
It was Fortnite. Like I was like really young. It was like one of the beginning like, like the beginning of it. And like all like little kids were obsessed with it. And like it was close to the end of the game. So I don’t want to put my like, I don’t want to leave the game because you can’t pause it. So I was just talking to him.
Max Branstetter 17:01
Yeah, I mean, you gotta you gotta pick your battles, pick your pick your battles, pick your battles. Start thinking. You mentioned being nervous for that initial audition there. What about when you actually got on the show? Like, how did your nerves compare when it was actually filming day versus that that initial tryout.
Tripp Phillips 17:20
The only bad part about filming day was the anticipation of sitting in the trailer up until we actually went on because I didn’t know when we were going to go on. So I was just sitting there waiting. Ready. But it it ended up being we’re in the trailer for like, five hours. I was like two o’clock. There’s a
Max Branstetter 17:38
common theme here. Waiting for five hours before you do it. Yeah,
Lee Phillips 17:42
he was fine when we first started but the longer it weighing down, the worse it got and that you see those little movie trailers that stars getting to sit in. They are not really glamorous. There’s there’s no flavored m&ms or anything in there. We’re just sitting there looking at the wall. There’s
Tripp Phillips 18:01
like a five inch TV.
Max Branstetter 18:02
Yeah. You never writer with the fortnight video game requirement there. Yeah. trip you mentioned that. You just had always loved Shark Tank. And you know, it’s a dream to be on the show. I know you’ve watched so many episodes, maybe all the episodes of the show just before it at a personal enjoyment even before preparing for it. But what did you notice about some of the sharks or just like the process of the show that you think helped you when it came to the actual recording day?
Tripp Phillips 18:31
I was excited. For one because I thought we’re gonna be in a big building, like a big high rise building with a nice architecture, but it was a warehouse. So that kind of piqued my excitement a little bit. I was kind of disappointed. But
Lee Phillips 18:49
you will you walk you walk up and you know you think of Hollywood is this fantastic situation and you’re basically going into what looks like a Marine barracks with stuff laying everywhere and then you stumble into this area of lighting that is now the set. So it’s it’s quite a different perspective to what you thought it was gonna be to what it is you’re not walking into a nice place. It’s a crappy old warehouse with cameras everywhere that they have made a really nice spot inside of. So yeah, that’s what he was. He’s like, Oh, this is not what I thought it would be. Yeah, he got a little disappointed from from that aspect
Tripp Phillips 19:28
beforehand. I knew that I wanted to like be with Kevin the most I liked him the most and all the episodes I’ve watched before he was kind of like he’s known as being the meaner one. But he was actually probably the nicest one to take a kid. They’re all nice to kids, but he like wasn’t me at all. And then I was just fortunate enough to where he gave me a deal.
Max Branstetter 19:48
That’s perfect. I don’t know he might have to have a new nickname if if he was really mean to kids as well. Yeah. Lately what’s like, what’s going on in your mind? Going through all this. And then when it came to actually that the episode was shown on TV, like, what’s it like seeing your kids on TV in such a big stage like this?
Lee Phillips 20:07
Well, yeah, it was cool for me, because the history that had within Vinny and trying to bring products to market. So, you know, I’m sort of living vicariously through him at that point in time, because I certainly would like to have a product on Shark Tank myself. We mentioned him being nervous, and I tell this story, but it’s, it’s probably one of the most memorable moments of my entire life, just because of the story behind it. As we got to that door, where they, you see come in through the shark Hall, he trips and I can’t do it, I just can’t do it. And I said, it’s okay, buddy. That’s what I’m here for. I know your speech, I know your lines that you’re supposed to say, you get out there, and you can’t, then just squeeze my hand look up at me Give me a signal, and I’ll take over and you can just smile. And I’ve bent down and you know, gave him a hug. And his sister was with him. And she’s sitting here right now behind us, she put his hand her hand on his back and comfort him. And then he looked up and said, I got it. And he walked up there and you hit I hit the home run. So you know, to be able to be his support. And he know that I was his support was a really big deal for me, not not just from the fact of where we are, but just because, you know, he knew he could count on me. So that continues to mean a lot to me and always has meant a lot to me. And that was the most rememberable moment of entire part of the study for me are the exercise. But again, the magnitude of you know, 33,000 people applying, and he was one of 35 that got on TV, you know, that’s a big deal. So he was a special dude for that for that season. 10 For sure.
Max Branstetter 21:52
Yes, is all right, you know, nothing that exciting. Now, that’s amazing. That’s a wonderful story. If you want to hear more wonderful wild stories of entrepreneurship like this one and learn more behind the scenes about them, you can sign up for the Podcasting to the Max newsletter. It’s where podcasting meets entrepreneurship. So that means you’ll hear behind the scenes Wild Business Growth stories, as well as podcasting tips, and terrible puns that are sure to make you just want to give up on humor yet again. You can sign up at MaxPodcasting.com/Newsletter and you will receive the Podcasting to the Max newsletter every Thursday. Now, let’s learn more about this family of inventors. Let’s switch gears a little bit which you that segues perfectly, but I was wondering about your family dynamic as it relates to the business. So the state at the time of this recording how you kind of divide, you know, who works on what with the business or how much each of you are involved like how how does that work on the day to day or week to week with Le-Glue?
Tripp Phillips 22:56
we have an employee, we have multiple employees, but it’s just one of the time that does that makes the glue in the back of the place that we are now we have it rented out. It’s like our little warehouse. If we need any we call them in and they take care of making it. And then my dad gets the notifications on his computer if we sell one on our website or anything where we have to send it out. And he has a little printer right here that can print the labels for shipping. And then me and my sister or him, we’ll just put them in the shipping box at the office. And they’ll get shipped out and if they’re on Amazon, then they do that themselves. We just send them like 1000 a month and they Yeah, keep the stock
Lee Phillips 23:38
we have third party that fulfills for us for Amazon. So we decided that was with him being in school and and his sister being in school, high school playing sports that we let give us a few pennies for someone else to manage that for us. And it’s been a good decision from that standpoint. So, you know, Trump’s the mouthpiece of the organization. He gives speeches, he goes to schools, he does things like this, but he just gave one for Junior Achievement a few weeks ago for the whole state of Georgia. He’s speaking behind guys like Bob Shaw, one of the billionaires here in town. I told Mr. Shaw that how do you feel being trips under car he didn’t think that was real funny. Trip does a lot of the positioning as visibly. His sister Ali, you might have even heard her rattling around. She was actually filled in a couple of orders as we speak. She comes in after school feels they need to open orders and help send them out. So we’ve got it kind of a slick down operation where they don’t have to spend a whole bunch of hours each week working on it and with our contract employees that come in and do the fulfillment they as far as building the glue itself takes the burden off of them. They used to mix it up in five gallon buckets and dump it in the in the hopper then say but they don’t have to do that anymore. We got machines now.
Max Branstetter 25:03
That’s good. And I’m glad it’s not just you two are you three is you can one you can sleep at night you can get have some sort of a normal life but also you got school you got work, you got so much going on. On that note trip, you got school, you got sports, say with your sister, Lee, you have you know, you’ve had this job as a director at a lab for for many, many, many years. Not trying to make you sound old, just a few years. But how do you manage you know, everything else going on in your life as well as like glue at the same time? Like how do you kind of divide and conquer that stuff.
Tripp Phillips 25:38
The last school sport that I did was last year that was like that just bridge between the time that I could thrive and I had a job like a regular day job. So like once I could start driving, I kind of dropped the school sports to give me more time to like they would I wanted to do and to work. And this year I get out of school like basically early. So I can come to work earlier in the day. And then I don’t have like a cram schedule most days anymore. I guess I used to back when we were given speeches more frequently or like doing something like this more frequently. But now I have a good bit of free time. So it’s not, it’s not hard to like manage.
Max Branstetter 26:21
Right and Lee and your sister aren’t yelling at you to make blue all the time. I’m just good.
Lee Phillips 26:29
Now they’re not, they’re not having to. One of the other ideas, and we talk about this a lot when we give speeches was you know, we were we were making the stuff in five gallon buckets and dipping it out with Ali’s baby spoon and put it in the little containers. And it took about an hour we could make about 40 units. So you know, all through Christmas time early on, we’re sitting there scooping and scoop and scoop and in there, they’re not getting to play or do anything as little kids because we had orders to fill. But Tripp was sitting on the table watching TV. And I guess he’s probably at this point 11 or 12? Well, no, it was right before Shark Tank. So he’s like man, if this applesauce if we could get our glue and this kind of a container many would be easier to squirt out and it would fit perfectly and we have a machine maybe to put it in now if I do that’s a better idea than even the glue itself. So he went and visited some factories that in Atlanta that that made those flexible spout pouches like you see in you know for kids applesauce and made a deal with some folks to create the pouch we currently use and not only did it we can do if he can do 500 units an hour now as opposed to 40 and it’s much more automated much more clean look and much more retail ready. And it saved the dollar 30 per unit by us doing that so not only was it better and faster it was cheaper as well. So I’ve always said that you know his his knack for coming up with solutions to problems is pretty good and that’s that’s what I’m trying to propel him in further as his career goes down the road is to be a solutions guy
Max Branstetter 28:15
that is there’s always a need for solutions because there’s always lots and lots of promises good space to propel into. Let’s wrap up with some Rapid-Fire Q&A. You ready for it? All right, let’s get Wild. Tripp, what is the coolest Lego creation you’ve ever made?
Tripp Phillips 28:33
I made pretty big Star Wars. One of the fighter jets. I don’t remember the A was it? Oh, the AT-AT
Max Branstetter 28:42
maybe not
Tripp Phillips 28:43
the one that’s the TIE Fighter. I met a pretty big and that was before I met Lou so that fell apart pretty fast. Apart from it but that was honestly one of the things that probably led me to think about it because it it was like one of those huge big ones that took hours upon hours to build and it fell apart because the wings that we built a an Alabama A and have the golf team for Alabama son that the college golf team and it that was pretty cool. And that’s likely together so it doesn’t fall apart.
Max Branstetter 29:16
Do your loyalties lie with Bama, even though you’re in Georgia?
Tripp Phillips 29:19
So no, for golf? used to come to our house? Yes, we would cheer for him at that specific tournament. But we’re both Georgia fans our whole fan was it?
Lee Phillips 29:31
Yeah, we hosted them. There’s a big college tournament in our town. And they hosted so they we ate dinner with him a couple of times while they were here. So we became Alabama golf fans. So he created that and had all of them sign it actually three of the guys that signed it are currently on the PGA Tour. So that’s pretty cool as well.
Max Branstetter 29:47
Oh, wow. Not the worst time in the world to be a Georgia football fan. So
Lee Phillips 29:52
we’re 100% Georgia football.
Max Branstetter 29:56
What is your favorite Shark Tank episode other than yourself?
Tripp Phillips 30:01
the Scrub Daddy it was funny just because they missed out on so much money and it’s like a have funny marketing like on social media or I get they used like their commercials used to be kind of funny and goofy.
Lee Phillips 30:13
Yeah like the Ring video because Jamie Siminoff was our guest post him they passed on it it is
Max Branstetter 30:23
it’s so weird. It’s so funny the amazing things that they ended up passing on. But yeah, that’s, that’s everywhere. Now those are great examples. What is the biggest thing that’s changed for you since the quote unquote Shark Tank fame.
Tripp Phillips 30:37
I mean, the biggest thing that changed for me overall would probably be that I had to speak a lot more because more people knew who I was. I had to get used to like being more of an outward facing person and like talking to people more and I wasn’t I wasn’t mad at that at the time because I was a little kid and I was I was pretty good at public speaking. But as I got older I kind of didn’t enjoy like speaking in front of big crowds as much but the ability to public speak is probably my most changed aspect because it improved a lot after Shark Tank because the the nerves weren’t ever really as bad as being in front of however many millions of people 5 million
Max Branstetter 31:16
yeah everything else is gravy after that. That’s awesome skill to to have and last one what would be your dream create like if you hired a sculptor artists to create like a giant sculptor using like glue? What would that creation be?
Tripp Phillips 31:36
Definitely something like the full size cars that they have at the Auto Show. They had one a few years ago and Paris it was like it was a Lamborghini. I would probably get something like that if I could, but if it was likely together maybe I can like drive it around or something
Lee Phillips 31:51
you wouldn’t want to bust of me or my body sculpture of me.
Tripp Phillips 31:54
Yeah. Or I could get a picture of his bald head
Max Branstetter 32:00
oh man, how about you leave? What would be your dream in besides a self portrait? What would be your dream sculpture?
Tripp Phillips 32:06
I don’t know you making a hole in one
Lee Phillips 32:10
it would probably be a big giant golf ball. Circles are hard to make and Legoland. I mean in Legos.
Max Branstetter 32:18
Yeah, yeah, they are. Well trippingly this has been absolutely fantastic. Thanks so much for coming on. And all you do and congrats on all the success and again if I if I had a time machine and could go back in time, and when I was growing up playing with Legos, like Lou was around, I would totally use it all the time. So so maybe you start working on that time machine next but I know that like hulu.com is where people can learn more. Is there any any where else you know your YouTube or anything social media that you want to shout out for people to learn more about Le-Glue?
Lee Phillips 32:49
Yeah, it’s @LeGlue4You on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook. Not a fan of Facebook but all people by legales so
Max Branstetter 33:00
I was gonna say Facebook’s the big generational difference there.
Lee Phillips 33:02
Yeah, that’s right. But you know what we found out that you know commercials to kids didn’t really work as well as commercials to old ladies. So
Max Branstetter 33:12
that’s perfect. Last thing, Final Thoughts, stage is yours, it could be just kind of a quote a line whatever. Just like one sentence words of advice, whatever you want. Send us home here.
Tripp Phillips 33:23
Yeah, my dad’s always told me and I’ve always held on to the you can never meet a goal. If you never set one. You have to set milestones in your life and whenever I achieved something, I try to appreciate it he doesn’t really do that for himself. He just kind of does things but I am more of a celebratory person than he is. I have used that quote and apply it in my life and tried to set goals that I can achieve and back then especially when I was doing all the short term stuff
Max Branstetter 33:58
cool stuff on cool stuff on cool stuff. You heard it here first, Tripp is way cooler and way more fun than his dad. Lee, thanks for playing. I’m just kidding. Thank you so much, Tripp and Lee, for coming on the podcast, sharing your Le-Glue story, taking me back to childhood and just awesome, awesome invention. And thank you, Wild Listeners, for tuning in to another episode. If you want to hear more Wild stories like this one, make sure to follow the Wild Business Growth Podcast on your favorite app and tell a friend about the podcast and try out Le-Glue with them and see if you can create a life-size Ferrari or Lamborghini or you know, car of choice. You can also find us on Goodpods, where there are good good podcasts and podcast recommendations. 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, from the Rockies no next time won’t be from the Rockies. It is really cool though here. Let your business Run Wild…Bring on the bongos!!
