The founders built FRT because they wanted to be in it themselves.
The founders of Founders Roundtable are a husband and wife who have been building an OKC business since 2016. They started with $200 and a product they believed in. No investors. No blueprint. No one who had done it before to call.
What they built became something real. Multi-million dollar revenue. Multiple retail locations. An ecommerce operation that ships to all 50 states and to customers overseas. A wholesale account with a national grocery chain. A fundraiser program that has worked with Little Leagues, dance studios, and nonprofits across Oklahoma. A team of long-tenured employees who genuinely want to be there.
Between them, they cover every side of running a business. One handles operations, purchasing, inventory, and the systems that keep everything moving. The other handles marketing, sales, brand management, and the customer relationships that keep people coming back.
What they did not have, through any of it, was a small room of OKC operators in the same kind of build. Every major decision was theirs to make. Every mistake was theirs to absorb. That is not a complaint. That is just what building looks like when there is no room like this one.
Founders Roundtable is the room they would have used. A small, hand-picked group of OKC operators past survival, eyes on what is next, willing to bring what they are working on and hear how other owners have approached it. Real businesses. Real conversations. Owner to owner.