WNY Entrepreneur

About WNY Entrepreneur

If you love Western NY AND Entrepreneurship; this is the podcast for you. David Schaub interviews the top entrepreneurs in WNY about business. If you’re anything like me you want to learn from the top people in the industry. You want to learn their secrets, their failures, what really works and what doesn’t. In this podcast we get to the “nitty gritty” stuff Entrepreneurs want to know and learn. It’s great to learn from Entrepreneurs from across the world but what about the amazing people in our own backyard? Here we learn from people who live in the Western NY area and thrive here in Business

Publisher

David Schaub

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2019

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

24 of 238 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Broke to a $1 Million Startup Win | Al Bozorgi | Twipes

   Host [Host Name] interviews Al Bozorgi, founder of Twipes, about his journey from financial hardship to a $1 million startup win, emphasizing persistence and learning from failure.

2. 

   4 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   He Took the Risk Most Engineers Won't - Brian Balthasar | Balthasar Industries

   Host [Host Name] interviews Brian Balthasar, founder of Balthasar Industries, about his entrepreneurial journey from layoff to manufacturing success, offering insights on risk, focus, and building a business.

3. 

   28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   He Built Over 100 Manufactured Home Communities - Jeff Cook | Cook Properties

   Jeff Cook, founder of Cook Properties, shares his journey of building over 100 manufactured home communities and the leadership lessons learned in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

From Broke to a $1 Million Startup Win | Al Bozorgi | Twipes

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Every manufacturer said to us, no, we're making PPE now. We're making face masks. The same material that we used to make whites, they went out doing face masks. So nobody wanted to work with us. We then had to call up every single of those 2,000 customers and basically be like, listen, We're so sorry. […]

Who has been a guest on WNY Entrepreneur

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Al Bozorgi
• Brian Balthasar
• Jeff Cook
• Tom Akers
• Patrick Hayter

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

46 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

81

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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