Mike Andes fired his crew and lost $207,000 last year. He describes the pain of sleeping on the couch and how bad company culture had created toxic subcultures that forced his hand.
Negative $207,000 ("We were negative $207,000 last year of a loss.")
"275."
I fired everybody. We were negative $207,000 last year of a loss. I put everything into this.
How big of a job was I in terms of revenue?
275.
Four years.
I slept on the couch.
We're going in with no numbers because he's not willing to share him until I'm in person. I need to explain things. Do you have your balance sheet? And profit and loss? I can print it. Cool. Let's do it. All of this is meaningless if we get there. And all he wants to talk about is this massive project that went bad.
When you have bad culture guys start creating subcultures.
And everything in the past has been against him.
There's been a lot of pain in my life, bro. Outside of work too.
I just don't have a lot of sympathy for those people. The reason that you keep falling back to, like, these things that happened in the past is because we do not have the confidence. And the reason we don't have the confidence, we don't have the organization to make decisions.
Trying to make this thing successful.
Who cares about what happened three years ago? Just cut it. Get rid of it. Stop thinking about it. Stop dwelling about the past and the hurts and stuff like that. It doesn't serve you.
I will be successful. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Stop identifying as the hurt entrepreneur instead of like, okay, I'm moving forward.
Mike has the answer to do that.
Your identity is not that. Then.
