A founder's business hit $30 million a year before the 2009 Denver real estate crash killed their marketing channels. At 38, after 15 years building companies, they felt completely behind and moved to Austin to start over.
About $30 million per year.
2009.
38.
Around 22–23.
About 15 years.
Did you feel young at 38? I felt so old, like I was way behind. I felt like I had screwed up because right before 38 I lived in Denver and I had a different company and the company at the time was doing 30 million a year. And then if you remember in 2009 the real estate market crashed in especially in Denver. And there's all kinds of challenges in the company and the way we did business dried up certain marketing channels and it was a mess. And that company almost ran it into the ground. Like I went from a 30 some million dollar company to like nosedive the thing. And that was after working from. I started my first company when I was 22, 23 and so I'd been working at this for 15 years and it basically evaporated. And so I moved to Austin to start over. And so that was 38. I was at a real low, especially financially and I thought I'd just blow in all these these years of building equity in a company that I thought I would sell and didn't.
