In 1984, our next guest graduated from the University of South Carolina with a classical guitar degree. He then went on to not only teach what he learned, but to become an entrepreneur in the classical guitar industry by inventing devices that make these guitarists' lives easier. Mike Switzer interviews David Stevenson, a guitar professor at the University of North Carolina in Asheville and at Clemson University, and his company is called Sageworks.
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.