From Failed Ventures to Entrepreneurial Success Lessons Learned on the Journey
11 Jun 2024

A founder walks through the failures that taught him how to build. He talks about early business attempts, what went wrong, and what he learned from each one.

A founder walks through the failures that taught him how to build. He talks about early business attempts, what went wrong, and what he learned from each one.
If you think you're going to go build a business and inside of 18 months or two years, like, have money flying in the door and you're going to just like, yeah, I'm buying my Ferrari next week. This is exciting. I get to call myself an Entrepreneur on my LinkedIn profile and stuff like that. It's harder than you think. And it takes a lot of different people to help you be successful. And what I mean by that is this. I started. I can't tell you how many businesses I started semi started growing up, right? I had a domain called cigarbox.com when I was like, 18 or 19. I was spamming people before can spam, as an example, right. I did, like, I don't know, I did a bunch of little things. And so none of them really materialized.

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