Ethan Parker

Jeremy Hanks of Doba is a cool guy. He was an accounting major at BYU and after an internship in audit with Arthur Anderson he decided that he’d do just about anything to get out of public accounting (I didn’t need to do an internship to figure that one out! I just had to looks at the overly forced half-smiles of recruiters talking about how they “loove” their work). Jeremy dropped out and started Geartrade.com. It did really well and he sold the business to some guy and they sold it to backcountry.com. Pretty cool. Then he started Doba.com.

Doba charges people a monthly fee to help them be a drop-ship business. They’re pretty cool and are doing well; all over the INC 500. He came and spoke at BYU one time so I emailed him through his blog and asked him if we could meet and talk entrepreneurship. He was on a plane to France at the time but emailed me right back and invited me to have breakfast with him at Kneaders in Alpine, UT. Way cool!

It was a ton of fun to meet him, he’s definitely your stereotype can-do-everything very kind and energetic entrepreneur type. I was impressed at how much attention and consideration he gave me considering his success in business. Cool guy. He eventually went back to BYU and finished his degree, changing to business management because they waived some classes.