2nd Gen Founder REVEALS HOW He's 10Xing Their 30-Year Family Business | Cliff Hardesty

Founder Talk with Alex Sheridan · Jul 27, 2026 · 52m

A 30-year family business. A second-generation founder. And a future that makes everything they built irrelevant.

He took over from his father and saw the problem immediately: the industry that built this company is being automated out of existence. Dark warehouses in China already run with zero humans. AI is changing how buyers discover businesses.

In this episode, Alex Sheridan sits down with Cliff Hardesty, President of Hardesty Technologies, to talk about 10Xing a family business, why a customer finding your company on ChatGPT changes everything, and what it really takes to rebuild a…