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The Smartest Business Move I Ever Made | Marcel Proskow

26 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of Marcel Proskow recounting a key entrepreneurial moment: after leaving his previous job and starting his own business, his existing clients quickly followed him to the new office. Because of his reputation he was able to hire five people rapidly; one client even rented a pickup truck to move files to Marcel's new office.

Questions this video answers

Five people.

A pickup truck.

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I realized I.
Needed people and I had a great idea and I could take it outside.
The four walls I.
Was within and.
Make a success out of it.
But I needed.
People around.
Me and.
I started hand.
Picking who.
I thought would work. And fortunately.
For me, I had a.
Good enough reputation that my clients just moved right over to my new office and started supporting us. And I very quickly was able to hire five people, and the rest, as they say, is history. My favorite part to that was I had one client.
Who phoned me up.
And he said, I hear you've left where you were and you've started your own business. And I said, yep, I have done that. And he said, well, I'm going to go to the old place and pick up all the files and I'm going to come over. He actually went and rented a pickup.
Truck, got all the files, drove to.
My new office, and said, now I brought you the files, you're going to unload them.