Bobby Pelz Jr
- McDonald and Pelz- CEO and Founder; Trailhead Capital- Founder
In 1982 when I was 27, I took a flyer and started my own company and was fortunate enough over the past 43 years to have helped build McDonald and Pelz into a well- respected international agricultural firm with offices in seven countries. We also began in the past ten years a regenerative ag fund, a carbon-capture company and an ag advisor/consultant group. We moved McDonald Pelz to Boulder in 1991 and one of my sons went to CU for undergraduate and a second went to Leeds for his MBA and my wife also has her Masters in Linguistics from CU. I was on the board of the Bridge House for 11 years and am former board chairman and still on the boardof Boulder Shelter for the Homeless (now All-Roads) . For enjoyment I sing, play golf, work out and do sculpture.
My advice to students...
I have tried to follow the four laws of ecology as expressed by Barry Commoner many years ago:
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
There is no free lunch.
To this of course can be added the sage advice that the only constant is change and if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space. What’s the worst thing that can happen- you can fail? The only ones who don’t fail are those who are not bold enough to try new things. Leadership is helping those on your team to be their best person. Synergy is one and one equals 2.5 or 3 or more- this is what a team can do that an individual cannot.
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
There is no free lunch.
To this of course can be added the sage advice that the only constant is change and if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space. What’s the worst thing that can happen- you can fail? The only ones who don’t fail are those who are not bold enough to try new things. Leadership is helping those on your team to be their best person. Synergy is one and one equals 2.5 or 3 or more- this is what a team can do that an individual cannot.