Episode 479: Darnell Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of POWERHANDZ

Today’s guest is Darnell Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of POWERHANDZ! Darnell is an entrepreneur, investor, athlete and sales professional. The resilience he needed to overcome obstacles early in his basketball career prepared him for the business world. He began his post playing career in the medical device industry and it didn’t take him long to climb the ladder to leadership positions. Darnell’s first company, TUKZ Undergarments, was a patented underwear line that was eventually acquired. Shortly after he began his next business venture, POWERHANDZ, which is an athletic sporting goods provider of performance enhancing training products, where he currently serves as the CEO. Today we talked about: growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah being overlooked and always needing to do extra his curiosity about the body & supplements early & constant challenges on his basketball journey how he prepared himself for the retirement process stepping into the deep end of the medical device industry how selling to doctors leveled up his salesmanship educating himself on the venture capital world what it was like to be on Shark Tank lessons learned from selling his first company all about the POWERHANDZ mission and much more! Appreciate you tuning in. Hope you enjoy! www.kevintarca.com www.kreationtalent.com https://youtube.com/@KevinTarca