Ben Ventress: Project Distribution, Family, Fear and Fun (Ep 277)

Hey, listen, tell us who you are and what you do.

Let's go.

Yeah.

All right.

My name is Ben Ventress.

I'm the owner, director of project distribution, and I'm a skateboarder.

Yes, you are.

So tell us about projects.

What

are the

brands that you mainly hold?

Yep.

So yeah, we're a wholesale distributor.

So we've always stuck in our lane of just importing the best brands we possibly can and selling them and supporting the Aussie skate shops around the country.

So you

don't sell online?

No, we don't sell direct to the public at all.

It's always been a conscious decision to never compete against the people that we're selling to.

So you see that a lot and we're all about... long-term you know the growth in skating and growth of the stores and i think trying to be as ethical as we possibly can within the business that we run um jim thebo who we work with at deluxe he is like the moral compass of skateboarding so the amount of times that we've said what would jim do in our business is insane so it was like um what would Jim do in any given situation to, you know, trying to make the best possible choice that we can, you know, with business in mind but also skateboarding in mind as well.

And often the two can conflict but they can get along and we just try to do the best we can with it.

Do you ring Jim when you need guidance on things?

I mean, I have, but I mean, he's pretty, you know, he's in pretty rare air.

He would take the time for sure, but I try not to, you know, that would be...

You don't hit him up for life advice?

No, no.