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Nate Holzapfel was born to Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel in Provo, Utah, United States.
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Nate Holzapfel is an American entrepreneur most known for his appearance on American Broadcasting Company’s Shark Tank, where he successfully pitched the Mission Belt Company He has since gone on to pursue a career in consulting and public speaking, and contributes frequently to The Huffington Post as a business and motivational writer
Career
In February 2015, Holzapfel revealed that he would be featured on a spin-off of Shark Tank called Beyond the Tank. When Nate was an infant, his family moved to Irvine, California for his father"s schooling, and at 13 his family moved to the small town of Woodland, Utah, where he entered the workforce a year later. Holzapfel briefly attended college, but left in order to pursue a career in sales and marketing.
Following his passion for sales, he had an established track record selling real estate, automobiles, and insurance in Mexico before founding Mission Belt Company
Mission Belt Company
Mission Belt Company was founded with the goal of bringing brand recognition to belts. Holzapfel felt that "fashion houses designed and created belts as an afterthought", and sought to change that practice.
After moderate initial success, Holzapfel appeared on Shark Tank and was able to negotiate a deal with fashion brand icon Daymond John. Since partnering with Daymond, Mission Belt sales increased by over $1 million within three weeks of the show airing which enabled Nate to expand his sales and entrepreneurship past his initial venture.
Mission donates $1 through Kiva for every belt that"s sold, $1 is donated to Kiva Lender Fund, which provides microloans to entrepreneurs mostly in developing countries.
In June 2015, Mission Belt reported that they have helped more than 20,000 families with these microloans.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints