Leaving Corporate America To Found A Startup

In this episode of the Get Over Yourself Podcast, Brandon Davis sits down with Cameron, founder and CEO of Revhawk, to unpack the mindset shift from corporate America to entrepreneurship. Cameron shares how his time at Walmart, his paternity leave, and a book club full of entrepreneurial thinkers pushed him to leave a stable career and start building something of his own.

They dive into the lessons he learned from working in data and retention analytics, why he chose pest control as an early industry focus, and how he used earned insight, customer conversations, and early traction to raise support for Revhawk.

Cameron also opens up about the importance of consistency, finding the right co-founder, building financial runway, and surrounding yourself with people who challenge you to take the leap.

RevHawk Website - https://rev-hawk.com/

Cameron LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-corbridge/

Interval Debt Collection - https://www.interval-ai.com/

Timestamps

00:00 - Cameron’s background and the episode’s focus on entrepreneurship02:19 - Paternity leave and the first real space to think about starting a company03:19 - Entrepreneurial book club and the ideas that stuck04:32 - The influence of Sam Walton, Rudolf Diesel, and Winston Churchill06:53 - Seeing a founder build a public company and realizing it was possible07:41 - Why time and consistency can matter more than brilliance09:30 - The consistency lesson behind long-term company building10:55 - Desire, honesty, and whether you actually want the thing you say you want12:03 - Don’t over-prepare forever, and how he got started with analytics work13:18 - Finding early customers on Reddit and proving value with simple reporting14:18 - Cameron’s early pest control experience through Fox and recurring revenue logic15:31 - Why pest control fit the data, retention, and systems criteria17:33 - The conversation with his wife about leaving Walmart18:18 - Building a financial foundation before taking startup risk19:37 - How Philo Ventures backed him and why that mattered21:03 - Why he thinks entrepreneurs are often good at risk management24:25 - Big learnings from the first year of Revhawk25:28 - The challenge of finding the right co-founder and team26:24 - What changes when you become the one responsible for everything27:54 - Learning the hard way that team fit matters29:11 - Why the best co-founder relationships are built on honesty and complementary strengths31:21 - How relationships and startup environments shape future founders32:18 - Why big corporate companies can make it harder to find entrepreneurial people33:33 - Working at Walmart, corporate culture, and the vibe inside Walmart Plus35:25 - How he pitched investors without a traditional deck36:44 - Why customer interest was the real signal that mattered37:41 - Doing early work for free versus getting paid upfront39:36 - Why relationships matter more in today’s software and service business landscape42:18 - Earned insight, deep industry knowledge, and why older founders can have an edge45:52 - Advice: get your personal finances in order first46:38 - Advice: find the right technical or domain co-founder as fast as possible47:36 - Advice: use school, clubs, LinkedIn, and startup environments to meet the right people48:31 - Advice: experiment quickly and start selling before the product is fully built49:14 - Use the relationships and industries already around you50:09 - Why Cameron builds: solving real pain points for customers and society51:06 - What “get over yourself” means to him: stop waiting, start building, and stretch beyond fear