Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

LEAVE YOUR HOMETOWN

7 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez surveyed thousands of people and found almost no one who became a multimillionaire without leaving their hometown for at least six months. She found only two exceptions, including Nathan Berry, who built ConvertKit into a multimillion-dollar business while staying in Iowa. Leaving forces you to reinvent yourself.

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Need to leave your hometown to grow. We did this study. We surveyed thousands of people on Twitter and on Instagram and we ask, have any of you never left your hometown for college, work anything for longer than six months and become very monetarily successful? Define monetarily successful. Multiple millions of dollars in network. Has anybody done that? We found two. I have one friend that Nathan Berry, created a company called Convertkit, never left his hometown in Iowa, never went to school outside of Iowa, built his business in Iowa. Iowa is worth millions. But what did we find everywhere else that almost everyone else had at some point at least left for college, at least left for six months. And I think this is really important because it allows you to become a brand new human and to see that it's possible to change who you are, to become something new where nobody else around you is anchoring you to the human that you are.