Nick Price: Valley View Industries

“We’re well-known in town for what we do because we do a good quality product, so it’s an easy sell.”

Nick Price

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Nick Price from Valley View Industries. From ambitious beginnings to the story of a long-held family business, you won’t want to miss this one!

“Our origin story is that my dad started the business well over 30 years ago. When I graduated high school in 2009, I started working for my dad; I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ll get rich, and it will be awesome.’ But that was not the case. My dad’s a pretty stern old man, and I got quite the whoopin’ and learned how actually to work. So it was a pretty good opportunity for me.

As the years went on working for him, I was like, ‘Hey, I liked this. I love working with cedar.’ That’s the wood we work with primarily, and it just went on and on. Then he started going away in the winters going to Thailand. So I naturally took over parts of the business and started learning more about business and marketing. And I was like, ‘Oh, I really like that.’

So in 2017, I purchased the business from him. We were a six-figure business then, I took it over in 2017, and now we’re into the seven figures. So doing great and growing the business, and yeah, it’s awesome.”