{"podcast":{"title":"PodCrash with Matt Ebert","slug":"podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565","podcast_index_feed_id":7321565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GEMINIMEDIA7377182361","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/464532d6-1951-11f0-b6a1-630fc808f616/image/f1e69799e5c8189dff47df444cc64d24.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Matt Ebert","episode_count":41,"summary":"Matt Ebert, founder and CEO of Crash Champions, sits down with industry leaders to discover the powerful synergies between different walks of life and businesses. Matt believes in a Champions Mindset. It’s how he took a single collision repair shop and turned it into over 650 locations across the US. Listen in while he unlocks the thought processes of successful leaders, and learn how he Champions People to empower them to grow.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T20:20:16.192191+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565"},"episode":{"title":"He Built PAW Patrol at His Company’s Lowest Point","slug":"he-built-paw-patrol-at-his-company-s-lowest-point","published_at":"2026-07-14T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565/he-built-paw-patrol-at-his-company-s-lowest-point","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/mgln.ai/e/796/traffic.megaphone.fm/GEMINIMEDIA9866333095.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/mgln.ai/e/796/traffic.megaphone.fm/GEMINIMEDIA9866333095.mp3","summary":"In this episode of PodCrash, Matt Ebert sits down with Spin Master co-founder Ronnen Harary, whose company is behind PAW Patrol, Bakugan, Air Hogs, and some of the biggest toy and entertainment brands of the past three decades. Ronnen shares how he started the business at 23 with a strange grass-growing toy, turned a small experiment into orders for hundreds of thousands of units, and helped build Spin Master into one of the world’s largest toy companies. He also gets honest about the company’s toughest stretch, when rapid growth and overconfidence took the business from $450 million to $1 billion in sales, then back down to $450 million. Matt and Ronnen discuss why it can be riskier not to start, how failure generates useful momentum, why passion can reduce risk, and what makes a business partnership last. They also explore the ideas behind Ronnen’s book No Experience Necessary and why young people may have more time, energy, and creative advantage than they realize. Want more Matt in your life? Of course you do! (https://www.instagram.com/mattebertcc/) (https://www.facebook.com/MattEbertCC) (https://twitter.com/mattebertcc/) (https://www.tiktok.com/@mattebertcc) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-ebert-7169a5180/) Get paid while you learn on the job at Crash Champions: https://step.crashchampions.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"In this episode of PodCrash, Matt Ebert sits down with Spin Master co-founder Ronnen Harary, whose company is behind PAW Patrol, Bakugan, Air Hogs, and so…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3075,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565/episodes/he-built-paw-patrol-at-his-company-s-lowest-point/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/podcrash-with-matt-ebert-7321565/he-built-paw-patrol-at-his-company-s-lowest-point.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}