In this episode of City Entrepreneur, we sit down with Bob Regnier, a visionary leader and founder of Bank of Blue Valley, to discuss his journey in transforming Kansas City’s banking landscape. We speak to the Kansas City start up Ecosystem and Growing the page! Bob shares insights on entrepreneurship, community investment, and leadership lessons learned over decades of impact. 🔔 Subscribe for more conversations with KC’s business leaders making moves in the community.

Gonzalo, founder of Scout, walks through the real steps that turned an ugly MVP into a paying veterinary clinic — and the hard lessons that came with being an early startup. This is tactical: product scope, demo approaches, first sales plays, the small product decisions that drove adoption, and the operational struggles every founder faces when there’s no runway and everything breaks.

3PL Playbook: Triage, Inventory & Scaling After a Celebrity Viral Moment Jeff, founder of Cybership — a fulfillment & logistics partner for DTC brands — tells the unvarnished story of what happens when a client goes viral. He explains how Cybership absorbed the demand spike after a Taylor Swift mention, the fulfillment and product tweaks that mattered, and the systems they put in place to turn chaos into sustainable revenue. He also gets candid about quitting college to run the business, the operational and cash pressures of hypergrowth, and the specific founder tradeoffs that made scaling possible. Practical, no hype — for founders, operators, and anyone who runs logistics for fast-growing consumer brands.