Voice of the Chiefs offers advice for startups: Stay hungry, humble and pointed toward your goal post
Mitch Holthus, the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs; photo courtesy of Fernando Salazar.
WICHITA, Kansas — Don’t settle for one winning season, Mitch Holthus — the longtime voice of the Kansas City Chiefs — told a group of startup founders, encouraging entrepreneurs to keep pushing forward before they find themselves hitting a professional plateau.
“You celebrate milestones, but you don’t stay there,” said Holthus, comparing the average lifespan of a startup to the average career of an NFL player, before bringing it back to the hometown team. “If anybody in this room thinks that we are satisfied with what we’ve done, you’re wrong.”
As Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Chris Jones pledged after Kansas City’s second consecutive Super Bowl win in February, the team is going for a three-peat, Holthus explained to a crowd gathered in Wichita for the celebration honoring the most recent graduating class of the NXTSTAGE Customer Traction Cohort.