Guest Speaker John Dimmer

On February 10, 2015, we had a guest speaker come to our class named John Dimmer. He is a close friend of Andrew Fry since high school. He came to educate us about funding for businesses in the real world.  For the first half of the class, Mr. Dimmer talked about his background. He told us about all the experiences and knowledge he has gained ever since he first started working for the Puget Sound Bank. Since he’s had a hand in many successful businesses, he is a great person to obtain information from for novices like me. I know next to nothing about how funding works or even financial stuff but after his presentation, I feel a lot more confident about the options that I have to fund a business. I believe that any person that is an investor for a new business is taking huge risk of not ever seeing their money again, however, Mr. Dimmer seems to be very successful in choosing the right companies to fund.

Some of the experiences that he shared were that he opened a Honda dealership, 4 Airstream dealerships, and at one point even being an owner of a tech company called Free Range Media with Andrew Fry. He went into great detail about the financial stuff with the Honda dealership and the Airstream dealerships. On the side, Mr. Dimmer has funded at least 50 companies as of right now.

I think this presentation/guest speaker was the best one that we’ve had so far. I learned a lot from him. I hope he comes back again one more time this quarter to answer a few more questions that students might have.