Nick Phelps

As a business owner, Nick has grossed $40 million in sales across the three companies he founded, led teams as large as 300 people and successfully exited a company. After starting his first lucrative business at 17, he later co-founded a direct-to-consumer online grocer that specialized in sustainably grown produce and artisanal foods.

That company grew from two men in a garage to more than 40 employees, a large warehouse and a constantly-evolving custom technology platform. There, Nick learned how to scale high performance teams. Even if he had switched to selling tires the next day, Nick still would have loved the business because of the team he built. After delivering millions of pounds of groceries to thousands of customers, the brand has continued to thrive after Nick’s successful exit.

Nick comes from a family of entrepreneurs, so it wasn’t surprising when, at 10 years old, he opened a lemonade stand and turned it into a profitable franchise, hiring his friends to run other locations while taking a percentage of their sales. It was his first of many experiences with building economies of scale.

Nick lives and works in Denver, where he and his wife recently welcomed their son into the world.