Each week on On a Mission we talk to community leaders who are out to make a positive impact in the area. Today, our host Steve Strum talks with Charlie Hammerslough of Scoot-Boot.
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Speaker 1
Welcome back to another episode of on a mission. I’m Steve Strum where we find people on a mission. I got Charlie Hammerslough from Scoot Boot, and he’s going to talk to us a little bit about his mission. But before we talk about it, we got to learn a little bit about the man. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2
Thank you. So much.
Speaker 1
So we were talking offset, advertising executive failed at retirement. You can only play so much golf. And now you have a company called Scoot Boot, right? Tell us a little bit about the pieces that I missed.
Speaker 2
You know, so my career has been all about data science and, innovating and building algorithms and databases and things like that. So but I’ve always been an avid builder of things. So when I, as you said, failed at retirement, I decided to pursue one of my passions. And one of my passions is actually biking and being on electric scooters and has two wheels and moves.
Speaker 2
I love it, not motorcycles. I tend to like either my own legs or, electric things. One of the reasons that I’m so passionate about this as a hobby and what it led me to scoot boot, is that I believe that biking, and being outdoors really connects you to yourself. It connects you to your community, and connects you to the environment.
Speaker 2
It’s really very healthy. Your your mind is really working fast. When you’re when you’re riding either in nature or, on a street. So I, lived in Chicago and commuted for seven years, about eight miles each way in whatever kind of weather this city could throw at me. So I’m really avid bicyclist. I now have an e-bike, and I have an e-scooter.
Speaker 2
Makes a little easier for a lot of older people are going to the electric. So I started scoot Boot as, a company to market and invention. And my invention is called the scoot boot. It’s a size down parking boot that clamps onto your tire of your bike. It’s only about this big. It’s it’s based on a regular, parking boot.
Speaker 2
It clamps onto your bike tire, your scooter tire, e-bike tire. And it’s kind of motion sensitive alarm. So if anybody messes with it, it makes a piercing, terrible sound for about 30s. I see ourselves as a company on a mission. I’ve made a conscious decision to assemble this product in the United States to try to create some good jobs.
Speaker 2
The accessories we’re probably going to manufacture in the United States. So we’re cutting, bending, welding and powder coating steel. For real? I mean, it gets it gets real when you’re when you’re dealing with sheets of steel. And in addition, you know, we’re, looking to, really be a good steward of the resources. So we’re making a product that’s designed to be generational and not to wear out.
Speaker 2
It’s made of really solid steel. It weighs about 6 pounds. And also, every bike that’s not stolen means you don’t have to manufacture another one. People don’t have to replace it. So there’s a societal component, but there’s also an individual component. We want to give people the, confidence to be able to park their bike or their scooter anywhere and know it’s not going to get stolen.
Speaker 2
It’s a big investment. So they don’t want it to get stolen. And that will encourage ridership, we hope.
Speaker 1
So a couple things for the folks watching the show. They don’t understand what an eight mile commute is in Chicago. I have an office in Chicago. For the audience. Guys, that could be two hours. On a good day. And if it’s a game day, if the bears are playing, you might as well come in the night before.
Speaker 1
So scoot. Boot. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2
I can I can talk about the commute.
Speaker 1
I know it’s terrible. It’s like weather, though. It was it was it. Did you train ride or train ride and train. How did you get in there?
Speaker 2
How did I get into Chicago?
Speaker 1
How’d you get it? Did you drive? You didn’t drive? Train.
Speaker 2
I, bus drive. And, you know, the fastest way was actually on a bike.
Speaker 1
Yep. So one of the things that’s really cool, right? Is that now your pain of, you know, I’ve been to Chicago in April is not a good day to ride a bike, but, so you have this thing to scoot. But now, as we kind of wrap this up, the on a mission mission is that you guys really important about the give back?
Speaker 1
Yeah. So whenever we have opportunity to talk about people, we’re talking about what they’re doing for the community. What are some of the things that scoop boots doing? As a give back or. Charlie, what’s he doing? To, you know, make a better community.
Speaker 2
So it’s easy, but I think it’s effective. We’re members of 1% for the environment, which is an organization where you donate 1% of your your profits. We’re we’re a startup now. So what we’re doing instead is, giving paid time off to our employees to go and work in the community, either cleaning up a beach or, you know, working in some sort of environmental work.
Speaker 1
That’s very cool, man. I you know, I was thinking about this thing. So it’s a parking boot. Many parking boot. Yeah, right. They can you throw in the rail, your bike. So it’s not going to be like a clunky thing. You know, 6 pounds of metal on your ankle doesn’t feel good. I got an idea for you. And if it goes through, I want 10% glitter bomb.
Speaker 1
Have you seen the Amazon packages? Right during the holidays? Right. They’re still in the back of the packages like refillable glitter bomb. Anyway, that’s my idea.
Speaker 2
That’s a great.
Speaker 1
Idea. Yeah. Take it to your engineers. They’ll say it’s impossible. In five years. I’ll call you. Be like I told you. That was a good one.
Speaker 2
Actually, I’ve had a little. We have had an idea. That’s very similar.
Speaker 1
Yeah, for projectile landmines. I think we’re probably bad, but glitter bomb.
Speaker 2
I think a lot of, like. I think more like smelly grease that gets every smelly grease.
Speaker 1
There you go. Yeah. Or bees and honey. You know, the bees might be an environmental issue.
Speaker 2
I do like the glitter bomb, though. It’s. It’s definitely got an inner city vibe to it.
Speaker 1
I know I appreciate you do different colors for the cities and the like. The Jaguars I think you do teal and black. It’d be awesome. So in all sincerity, very cool to spend some time with you. The, you know, the the the invention, awesome invention, the mission of what you’re trying to do to give back. Even better, because, you know, you have been fortunate in your business a couple times now with retirement and coming back and now having a business that you’re not forgetting about the little guy or the environment is something that’s really part of what this whole show’s all about.
Speaker 1
So thank you very much for sharing the fun adventures of your life, but then how you’re using those fun adventures to give to other organizations that may not be as fortunate. So thank you so much for coming. Thank you. So, and you know what, guys, thank you so much for joining us on on a mission. If you liked this episode, share the episode.
Speaker 1
Two things to remember. Always live with gratitude and glitter bomb. Come check him out on our daily news network. And you guys have a tune into the next episode and we’ll see you next time.
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