After 15-20 years in corporate management, the speaker left to start a services firm. They landed their first client within three weeks and grew to 50 staff and market leadership in six years, using skills from their corporate background to move faster than they expected.
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You know, I think I have been a little more fortunate actually. It felt like it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I always think in retrospect, I wish I'd done it even earlier, but at the same time, my experience really helped. So I was in corporate America for 15, 20 years and really learned a lot about everything from management to building a team, to internally promoting my team and myself, building methodologies, all of that. And I'd been in data quite heavily for a while. And I'd just been thinking about creating a services firm for a long time, probably a decade of just kind of thinking through it, percolating it, you know? And I finally just found myself with the opportunity. It was my sort of in transition between jobs. And I thought, you know, maybe the time is finally right. Well, here I am. And, you know, within 3 weeks I actually had my first client.