About this episode
Stephen Hargett’s path into entrepreneurship wasn’t planned—it was earned through persistence, hustle, and a relentless openness to saying yes to what came next.In this episode, Stephen shares his deeply personal and refreshingly candid journey to founding wrkspace, a "workspace-as-a-service" platform offering fully managed space solutions for teams, events, and collaborators. But before co-founding wrkspace, Stephen was figuring things out one step at a time—from moonlighting as a boarding school teacher to making 1,000 cold calls a day at a pre-IPO startup, to working at Apple during the iPhone 4 launch (and, yes, emailing Steve Jobs).Through it all, Stephen learned how to navigate ambiguity, stay mission-aligned, and build community—and wrkspace is the product of those lessons.Here’s what’s covered:What wrkSpace is and how it's redefining flexible space as a serviceThe nonlinear career path: Apple, Tesla, education, and tech startupsLearning about stock options (and what he wishes he’d known earlier)The realities of rejection before getting a shotBuilding skills through cold calls, customer empathy, and gritHow the startup bug caught him (and never let go)Leading with transparency and building a culture of resilienceWhy scrappiness and curiosity are core founder traitsLearn more about wrkspace: https://www.wrkspace.app/
