This is a short YouTube interview (host Sam/Nate Tilley) with founder Sabri Subhi discussing whether entrepreneurs are born or made. Sabri argues entrepreneurship is primarily shaped by environment and experience rather than innate DNA, citing childhood circumstances (raised by a single mother in Byron Bay), early low-paid work in a health food store (~$2.50/hr at age 6–7), and a more lucrative first busking day (~$70) as formative experiences that taught him to work for himself and optimize return on time. The video closes with a channel subscribe/CTA.
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Founder Sabri Subhi joins me now in the studio. I really look at business as an incredible vehicle to really make good and make change in the world, mate. You've obviously got a very entrepreneurial mind, and I say you've started multiple businesses, you're very open in saying that you've scaled a lot, but you've run a lot into it, or you've run a few into the ground as well. Where does that come from? Because I'm still on the fence of whether an entrepreneur is born or made. Where do you sit on that argument? Yeah, I think it's definitely a factor of somebody's environment. I don't believe that they are born. I don't think there's something inherently different in my DNA that makes me an entrepreneur than the next guy, Right. I think that it's just something that happens environmentally to you over time. And I think that the first time that I got my taste for that was like, I was raised by a single parent, mother, me and my sister in Byron Bay. And there was a point where, like, my. My very first job when I was like 6 or 7 years old was working in a health food store grinding peanut butter up for $2.50 an hour. And I realized very quickly that I wasn't gonna be able to make any money to really make a substantial difference into my mum being able to bring us up, right? And then I started busking at the markets on a Sunday with a harmonica. And I made like $70 in that first day. This is in Byron. Yeah, Byron. And then I was like, I got that money. And then I was like, okay, well, this is obviously a lot better in terms of return on my time, right? And that was something that could make, you know, a difference in terms of what that. What would that would look like in terms of the output. So that was probably the unconscious first thing in terms of the environmental forces that factored the mindset of working know for myself and being entrepreneurial. But I've always worked for myself. And what I mean by that is I've had many of jobs, right? Many. And I've still worked for myself. So, you know, I think it's a fallacy to say when people say, oh, I want to go work for myself, like I worked for myself when I worked in those organizations, right? I was looking at my time, I was looking at the output, and I was always chasing my potential of what I could do. It was never of a fact of, I'm coming in to punch the clock and get these hours, right? So I think that, you know, you can. You know, everyone. Like, they should look at it in the way that they already work for themselves, because they do. Hey, guys. We're coming to you from lockdown in Melbourne. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe. Share it with a friend. We're dropping a video like this every day on YouTube, and I will see you in the next video, Sam.
