
There's No Perfect Time to Bet on Yourself
Someone in a recent CEO roundtable asked me what made me the entrepreneur I am today, after building multiple hundred million dollar businesses. The honest answer isn't a strategy. It's a conversation I had with my wife.
I was 35, we'd just had our second kid, my wife wasn't working, and I wanted to leave a stable path to become a co-founder at a company that could pay me close to nothing. In this video I share what she said that changed everything: she gave me one year to prove it had legs, or I'd go get a real job. That was the gift, the gift of time, and the gift of a forcing function…
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