"We're Not Going Back" - Tom King, King's Paint & Paper

About this episode

Rundoo's very first client shoveled paint off the floor after an earthquake at age 10, and today he runs that same family paint business. In Episode 1 of Supply Stories, Nick Hershey sits down with Tom King of King's Paint & Paper for a candid conversation on running an independent paint business across five decades. 🎧 Listen now and subscribe. Tom is a second-generation owner of the Benjamin Moore business his dad Ron and uncle Bill started in 1976. He swore as a kid he'd never sell paint, but came back at 30 and now runs three stores across Santa Cruz County. In this episode, Tom and Nick get into: Growing up in the business, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that put a snow shovel in…