Mandatory Fun

In this episode of the Mandatory Fun podcast, we speak with U.S. Navy SEAL veteran turned entrepreneur Eli Crane. You may have seen Eli pitch his business Bottle Breacher on the hit TV show Shark Tank. Eli's appearance landed him a partnership with celebrity businessmen Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary. Eli stopped by our show to talk about what military strategies he uses to run his multi-million dollar business. "A lot of the tactics that we use on the SEAL teams actually work really well in business," Eli Crane states. "When you make some of the correlations in battle, you have the enemy, in business, you also have an enemy, but we usually call them the competition." Bottle Breacher is one of the fastest growing veteran owned and operated businesses in Arizona. Eli and his wife Jen dove into the Shark Tank with their sole product of the recycled, authentic decommissioned .50 caliber Bottle Breacher, manufactured in a one car garage. Having enticed Sharks’ Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary to invest, today they feat