After his small government-contracting firm was acquired and lost its culture, the speaker and a partner founded Corner Alliance 17 years ago to preserve the work and workplace they valued, not to chase a market opportunity.
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About 17 years ago (speaker's estimate).
Corner Alliance.
My journey as an entrepreneur really started when, you know, I was working at this company. And it was. It was a small government contracting company up here, was bought by a much larger company, and then, you know, through that process, kind of lost the culture it had had. So it was really, for me, I started out owning businesses because I wanted a better place to work and still do the work I was doing. So a partner and I decided to strike out on our own about 17 years ago, I guess, and founded my main company, Corner alliance then. And it was really, you know, it wasn't some great idea. It wasn't, you know, like a hole in the market or anything like that. It was simply I wanted to work on. I wanted to keep doing the work I did in the environment I wanted. And, you know, it seemed like setting up a company was the best way to do that. So I really kind of stumbled into entrepreneurship. And so that. That was my first real challenge was like, what do I do now that this job I had that I like was kind of changed because of the company I was working for, selling, and then kind of setting up my own thing after.