He recalled Lev saying, “I’m so glad you asked me that, cause I’m sitting here at my desk thinking, ‘I need to get out of here.'” In fact, when he called Lev to offer him a job, Lev was dying for a chance to be more passionate about a job, according to Foose. One of his most famous and important hires, licensing manager Carson Lev, “had the same passion that I have for cars,” Foose recalled. “They’ve got to have the desire to do what we do.” “I feel lucky and blessed that I get to make a living doing something that’s 100 percent unnecessary,” Foose joked, calling it a passion-driven industry in the sense that clients pay designers to deliver automotive dreams.Īsked about hiring - which Stinson described as one of the major small-business concerns (a sentiment Foose shared) - Foose said he looks for a similar automotive passion in candidates.
Upon meeting auto designer Alex Tremulus and seeing Tremulus’ work, Foose decided, “That’s what I want to do.” However, Foose figured he’d work for an OEM, and “hot rods would just be a hobby.”īut he eventually went to work for Boyd Coddington’s Hot Rods by Boyd - “wow, I just turned my passion into my career” - and then started his own custom car design business following the bankruptcy of that firm. Foose traced his start back to a desire to be “as good as my dad” when it came to drawing cars. “I was born into this industry,” he told the crowd at the conversation with Capital One small-business credit card head Buck Stinson.
“If it’s something that I really truly want to do, then I jump in on it.” 1 during a SCRS-Capital One Spark Business event. “Every decision I’ve made in my business has been passion-driven, not logic,” the Foose Design owner told a SEMA crowd Nov. Automotive design star Chip Foose earlier this month repeatedly pointed to the concept of “passion” as a dominant force in developing his famous small business.
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