Governor Rick Snyder: Relentless Positive Action

Live from the Next Chapter with Dan Loepp · Aug 17, 2026 · 45m

Rick Snyder had never run for office. He was a CPA with three degrees by twenty-three, six years spent scaling Gateway from 600 employees to 13,000, and a venture capital career behind him. Then a dinner conversation with his wife in early 2009 ended somewhere neither of them expected.

He entered the race polling low enough that his early supporters joked he could be a negative number. He still calls them the Margin of Error Club.

In this conversation with Dan Loepp, Michigan's 48th governor walks through what followed. Why he spent his first campaign's Super Bowl money on an ad his own…