
Welcome back to another episode of 15 minutes of fame. I am joined by marianne and larry of the business known as first place collectibles, a company that does trophies and memorable and commemoratives that athletes and participants would take from those events. Why is this an important subject in events? Well, if you've ever been a runner, hey, am i? I'm getting a trophy. I just won first place. I just worked my butt off this year to get to this point, and I got a first place trophy that was recycled from a softball tournament. Marianne, tell me a little bit about yourself and the company you're working with. Our company is first place collectibles, and I have been working there for a couple years with larry puzniak, one of the owners and zach hickert the other owner, and we sell modern trophies. We're all athletes, the guys kind of head of the baseball division, and they're also runners. I'm a runner and I have all these medals behind me. Not that i've earned them all. Some are ones we've created. Our company is built of athletes who also designed race medals. We're all graphic designers. We love the sport. We love the community of running. We volunteer at races. We're part of the community and then we just decided, "hey, we're all designers, we could definitely design these. " that's great and it's nice to have anyone in a company who is of the fabric of the actual content being discussed. It's hard to hire somebody in a skiing company who doesn't ski. You don't even know what we're talking about. Thank you, marianne. Larry, what's your position with first place collectibles and how'd you get here? Three years ago, zack and I started this company. We both come from brand marketing and advertising background. As our kids got older and got into sports, we saw a huge opportunity. We just wanted to make a change in how we bring branding into what you get for accomplishing the feat of crossing that finish line. Let's get into the meat of the conversation. We have three points to discuss. We're going talk about the fashion of a trophy. We're gonna talk about the function of a trophy, and we're going to talk about the positive productivity of a trophy in the world of 2020.