Shelby Smith is the owner and founder of Gym-N-Eat Crickets LLC and a boot-strapping master. She has grown her business from what started as a few tubs of crickets and a small stall at the local farmers' market into a network of cricket farms around the state of Iowa, and tasty cricket snacks on shelves around the country. 

Shelby has chosen her founder path as a bootstrapper so she can do things her way.