
E1001 - Passion to Profession: What Outside Operators See in the Sports Card Hobby with Gavin Hoover of Tombstone Collectibles
Published: June 29, 2026
Duration: 1:03:03
What happens when experienced business operators build a sports card company instead of longtime collectors?
In this episode of Passion to Profession, Brett sits down with Gavin Hoover, Chief of Stuff at Tombstone Collectibles, to discuss what happens when enterprise experience meets the hobby.
Gavin shares how his background building large retail organizations shaped the way Tombstone approaches breaking, hiring, branding, analytics, customer relationships, and growth. Instead of thinking like a breaker, Tombstone thinks like a business.
The conversation covers why trust is the biggest challenge in scaling, how data drives decisions, why...