Ryne Ogren - Private Business Investor

Everyone has their own journey in life.  It can take you to places you never anticipated.  With Ryne Ogren, it has been no different.

Ryne was a professional baseball player and is now helping investors find businesses to invest in. 

Listen as Ryne explains how he finds small businesses with owners that are looking to exit and need a buyer, investor or some outside management help to get the business growing.  Every business owner needs to bow out eventually, and Ryne is in the business of finding ways to help business owners do just that.

Enjoy!

Visit Ryne at: https://www.ryneogren.com/

James Kademan [00:00:00]:

You have found Authentic Business Adventures, the business program that brings you the struggle, stories, and triumphs and successes of business owners across the land. We are locally underwritten by the bank of sun prairie. If you would like downloadable audio episodes of the podcast for free, you can go to drawincustomers.com. Today we are welcoming, preparing to learn from Ryan Ogren, the founder of E, to so, Ryan, how is it going today?

Ryne Ogren [00:00:27]:

Yeah, well, so I'm not the founder.

James Kademan [00:00:30]:

Of E two E. I'm sorry. Well, let's change that. Okay, let me change that.

Ryne Ogren [00:00:35]:

Founder of Rhino LLC.

James Kademan [00:00:40]:

I don't see that email. How do you spell that?

Ryne Ogren [00:00:43]:

It's R-H-Y-N-O-L-C. But my real title is I'm a private business investor.

James Kademan [00:00:51]:

All right.

Ryne Ogren [00:00:52]:

Yeah.

James Kademan [00:00:53]:

Private business investor. That's a cool name.

Ryne Ogren [00:00:55]:

Professional baseball player. Private business investor.

James Kademan [00:00:59]:

All right, got you. Okay. Professional. All right. What is the e? Two e thing?

Ryne Ogren [00:01:17]:

So that's Sir Darren Jacqueline's fundraising event. And so I just walked up to him at a random M and a conference. I asked him, I was like, hey, what should I be looking to do here? And lo and behold, he just took me under his wing and looped me in on this cause. So Elevate to Educate is an arm of the Ly Two NK Foundation, which is helping to build schools in Africa. And Elevate to Educate is an arm of that, a fundraising arm of that to raise money through hiking fundraisers.

James Kademan [00:01:51]:

Got you. All right. Got it. Okay, so we can talk about more of that when we get going here.

Ryne Ogren [00:01:56]:

Yes.

James Kademan [00:01:57]:

So let's just say we have Ryan Ogren, the founder of Rhino LLC, professional baseball player, as well as I love this, the private business investor. So, Ryan, how is it going today?

Ryne Ogren [00:02:11]:

Good, James. Thanks for having me on.

James Kademan [00:02:13]:

Yeah, thanks for being on the show here. This is cool. You have quite the story. It sounds like all kinds of things going on. Professional baseball player into business. You don't hear about that too often.

Ryne Ogren [00:02:26]:

Yeah, so I'm not a professional baseball player at the moment. I retired.

James Kademan [00:02:29]:

Right. But we're past tense, right?

Ryne Ogren [00:02:31]:

Yes.

James Kademan [00:02:32]:

Great.