My Story
Long before I became an entrepreneur, I learned some of my most important lessons standing on a pitcher’s mound.
I was a college baseball pitcher, and baseball became one of my first real lessons in leadership. It taught me discipline, preparation, accountability, and how to perform under pressure. As a pitcher, you quickly learn that you can’t control everything that happens around you. You can only prepare, trust the people behind you, make adjustments, and be ready to throw the next pitch.
Most importantly, baseball taught me that you don’t win alone. You win as a team.
That lesson has stayed with me throughout my life.
But as important as baseball has been to who I am, my greatest lessons in leadership didn’t come from sports or business. They came from my family.
I’ve been fortunate to be married for more than 25 years and to raise two amazing children. Being a husband and father has probably taught me more about leadership, patience, commitment, and perspective than any job or business ever could.
Marriage has taught me that anything worth building takes work. It takes communication, compromise, trust, loyalty, and the willingness to work through challenges together.
Raising two children taught me something equally important: leadership isn’t about telling people what to do. It’s about helping people become the best version of themselves.
You learn to listen. You learn patience. You learn that people are motivated differently. You learn to celebrate their accomplishments instead of needing the spotlight yourself. And sometimes you learn that the best thing you can do is give someone the confidence and opportunity to figure something out on their own.
I’ve carried those lessons into every business, team, and project I’ve been fortunate enough to build.
My professional journey has taken me through restaurant management, technology, logistics, and entrepreneurship. Each chapter taught me something different about people, operations, customer service, technology, and leadership.
I’ve also always been someone who sees a problem and immediately starts thinking, “There has to be a better way to do this.”
That’s ultimately how Delivery Dilemma, LLC began.
I wanted to build more than another delivery company. I wanted to create a company businesses could genuinely depend on: a local team built around relationships, technology, accountability, communication, and trust.
Today, Delivery Dilemma has grown from an idea into a team serving businesses throughout Northern Nevada. Seeing that growth is rewarding, but what I’m most proud of isn’t simply the number of deliveries we’ve completed or how much the company has grown.
I’m proud of the people we’ve brought together, the relationships we’ve built, the problems we’ve solved, and the opportunities we’ve created along the way.
And Delivery Dilemma is only part of my entrepreneurial story.
I love building things.
I enjoy taking an idea that might start as nothing more than a conversation or a problem I’ve noticed and figuring out how to turn it into something real. Some ideas work. Some don’t. Some change completely along the way.
I’ve learned to appreciate all of it.
Entrepreneurship has taught me that failure isn’t necessarily losing. Sometimes it’s simply information telling you to adjust your approach and throw the next pitch.
When I look at the different chapters of my life (baseball, marriage, raising my children, managing restaurants, working with technology, building businesses, and leading teams), they may seem completely different.
To me, they’re all connected.
They’ve taught me that the best things aren’t built overnight.
- They’re built through consistency.
- They’re built through relationships.
- They’re built by showing up when things are difficult.
- They’re built by surrounding yourself with good people and trusting them.
- And they’re built by understanding that success means a lot more when the people you care about are standing beside you.
I still approach life and business much like I approached baseball:
- Prepare.
- Trust your team.
- Compete.
- Learn from the losses.
- Celebrate the wins.
- Take care of the people around you.
- And always be ready for the next pitch.
That’s the philosophy I try to bring into every business, every project, and every team I build:
Find a problem. Build a great team. Create a better solution. Take care of your people. And never stop improving.