A 28-year-old who started a prototyping business at 19 learned that building products meant nothing without customers. He taught himself marketing, then pivoted to selling advertising and lead-generation services to other businesses. Ten years of wins and losses left him feeling much older than his age.
I have been doing this. I don't feel— I'm 28 currently, almost 29. I don't feel 28. I feel like I'm 55 some days. Yeah. But I've been doing this for almost 10 years now. I started in college. I was 19 years old. It was really just like, hey, you know, I don't see myself going into the corporate world and pivoted and was like, you know, I'm going to start my own business and we're going to see how it goes. I was in school for engineering, so I had got into prototyping and that was my first business. I realized very quickly you can start a business, but you don't just, you know, get a bunch of customers Coming in your door. So I learned marketing, and then from learning marketing, I was like, wow, I could do this stuff for other people. And that led me into the whole world of starting marketing companies, advertising, lead generation, SEO, all that stuff. And has really, you know, led to me— the way you say it sounds a lot better. The way I say it is like, you know, it's great, you know, they're, they're doing well, but we've had a lot of successes and a lot of failures, uh, at that as well. Yeah.
