Mike Patrick
Appearances
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
We kind of just bonded our experience, you know? I mean, not only being best friends, but then business partners. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just kind of pivoted from our own company.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
beautiful coating on our floor that would have come up it was it was it was the wildest thing you know the the solution that we put into our other product leaked on the floor okay and uh The car was pulled into the garage. The oil leaked on the concrete. The next day went and wiped the concrete clean. The oil did not even penetrate. So we were like, oh, well, we have a concrete sealer now.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
There you go. That started from there.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Yeah, so he would call me and say, I have this wild idea, and I guess I'm kind of the loose wheel between the two of us, and I would just put it on anything and everything just to see if it would stick. Okay. So, you know, no chemistry background for me, but, you know, I was just kind of a trial and error guy. Yeah, yeah.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
And I put it on a... I had an old 40-year-old shingle outside of my barn, and I coated half of it, and I just left it there for like two months, and I didn't even tell him. And I came back to it, and I just scratched on it with a knife. You know, you touch one side, the granules would come off. And when those come off, that's when your roof starts failing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
The side that I sealed, I couldn't get the... that was ripping my fingernail off trying to get them off and this is on a 40 year old shingle wow so
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Easy upsell. You can actually help people with this product. It saves people a lot of money. Well, roofs aren't cheap. Roofs are not cheap. Shingles are not cheap. But the crazy thing is, we probably didn't mention this, you can put this down get your five years, depending on what the shape of your roof is, and then you can do it again. So you just kind of keep going.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Sure, so obviously we started, like we said, with a different technology and I wouldn't say that it failed. A ton of hurdles to jump and everything works out for a reason, right? So we stumbled across a different type of coating and we eventually started putting it on shingles.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
I think it happens every day. You know, you have to... If you're not getting it done, then you just have to work harder. So you have to be able to balance the highs and the lows. For me, that's kind of the way I see it. We scream at each other twice a week. But, you know, we always get it done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's been rough.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Hustling, yeah. We did whatever. We hung wallpaper for years. Lots of things. I mean, just did anything to make money. Yeah, yeah.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
trouble us well people say that the only ship that doesn't sail is a partnership right but i think when you have a good buddy that you're doing you've been doing it with forever and you have an understanding like you know i'll have a bat have kids so i'll have a rough day and not get any sleep one day he's able to kind of pick up the slack so you know if you have a partner it's good to have somebody in business that can you know pick you up when you're you're you're
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Well, I was going to ask that. How's the leadership dynamics with two of you? So you both have to be leaders. Yeah. So he kind of handles the inside stuff, and I handle the operations.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he does his thing. I do my thing. And, you know, sometimes that switches, you know, if he's on vacation or something. But, you know, when you're just getting going in the beginning, there were no vacations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your vacation was making product, you know. We put... we don't outsource a lot of stuff.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Like we still put the stickers on all the bottles, package everything. We do everything ourselves. It's, it's, uh, it's completely made in the USA in-house business. And that's kind of what we want.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Realistic goals. Yeah, realistic. Daily, realistic, achievable.
Living The Red Life
Keith Duke & Mike Patrick on Accidental Innovation
Yeah, well, they get in their head. They're like, I'm going to be a millionaire. Well, there's a little bit you got to do. You got to lose some sleep before you get to that point.