Daron PachecoCEO, Howdy Media · Brand Builder

How much of your own career success do you owe to trial and error versus having a mentor?

29 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this interview excerpt, Daron Pacheco asks the guest how they learned the business aspects of running a company. The guest explains that their father has been a constant mentor, providing daily guidance on monetary matters such as markups and profit margins. Beyond that, the guest emphasizes that the rest of their business knowledge comes from continual trial and error, applied every day. They reflect that over a decade of experience, they will accumulate valuable insights that they hope to pass on to others in the future.

Wow. Uh, so has there ever been any, like, what about the business side? Like, how have you learned the business side of things? Trial and error?
Or— Yes. So my dad has helped me a ton. Like, still to this day, I call him every single day and I'm like, hey, this is going on. How do I go about this? Or what does this mean? And he's, he's very good, like, with the monetary side. He's like, Well, you need to, you know, figure out your markups and your profitable margins. You have to figure that out or everything else is not going to go right. So he helps me with that side. As far as business, it's just trial and error. And that's with everything. Trial and error every single day.
Everything that you do, it's like, oh, this might work, this might not. I think that's where the experience comes into play because like In 10 years from now, you will know so many valuable things about business, and then hopefully you can help somebody else do the same thing. That is, that is awesome.