From Sheet Metal to Software with Phil Ogilby

<p>In today’s episode, Jeff interviews Phil Ogilby in Cincinnati, OH. Phil is the owner of Stack Construction Technologies. His career started after High school when he moved to Dayton, OH and started working as a sheet metal worker. After inflation was running rampant, Phil shifted from sheet metal work to roofing and construction. Then from roofing and construction to software development. Phil shares his journey and how the ups and downs of each transition in his life brought him to where he is today. </p> <p> </p> <p>Phil and Jeff discuss:</p> <p> </p> <ol><li style="font-weight:400;">Graduated HS in 1978; his parents saved $2500 for him to go to college.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">But they gave him an option, he could go to Dayton Ohio and work in the sheet metal workers union or take the $2500 and go to college.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">He chose to go to Ohio and worked in construction.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Some time after when Jimmy Carter was in the white house and inflation was running rampant, he lost his job and found himself unemployed.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">So he drove to the unemployment office a couple times and applied for multiple jobs; felt it was demoralizing. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Purchased a book on how to put a roof on your house although he had never done roofing before but seen it in his sheet metal trade.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Decided to go to the Yellow pages office and he spent $600 a month on yellow pages ads, hired his buddies and bought a truck. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Fast forward 10 years, he brought home his first personal computer with a Lotus spreadsheet on it, which he used for his estimating.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Traveling and saw a book called Quick basics for kids he found at the airport bookstore.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">His older son Justin was into it and so Phil bought some more books so they could create some estimating software.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Justin s