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20 Years of Solving the Wrong Problem to 170 Locations

Sep 3, 2026 · 43m

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What happens when you spend nearly 20 years trying to solve a problem—only to realize you've been solving the wrong one? In this episode of the Growth Mavericks Podcast , Adam Callinan sits down with Tim Vogel , founder and CEO of Scenthound , to unpack the two-decade entrepreneurial journey that eventually created an entirely new category in pet care and grew to 170 locations across the country. Tim started with mobile dog grooming, only to discover that the economics, staffing, routing, and scalability of the model were far more difficult than expected. He moved into brick-and-mortar grooming and built his own pipeline for training groomers, but the breakthrough came when he realized…