Philip and Melissa Niu quit their jobs and sold possessions to start a camera rental company. Melissa, whose father is a federal judge, grew up unafraid to fail. Philip had sworn off entrepreneurship until Melissa convinced him to try.
On today's slider, Philip and Melissa, new founders of the unique camera rental company, parachute dive into overcoming the fear of failure. Before you went.
And quit the job.
And sold.
Everything, did you guys sit.
Down and decide.
Like, this is what.
We'Re willing to risk?
Oh, yeah.
This is how much time we're willing to put in. What was that like?
I told you I swore off I would never be an entrepreneur. She is the main reason why I allowed myself to take a jump, because I looked at her and I said, I can't do it anymore. I can't do the corporate side anymore. We've got to do something together. You're amazingly talented. I've got a great background. Let's combine our talents. And she looked at me and said, whether this fails or not, I'm with you.
It's interesting because you look at his background versus my background. I have a federal judge as a father. I have five brothers and no sisters. There has not been a time in my life where I wasn't empowered by the men around me. I've never felt that there was nothing that I couldn't do that a man or anyone else couldn't do. And so when I look at him, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm so not afraid to fail. If we fail, we fail together.
We love it to that point. You said the word fail, but I think that even if you did what we'll call fail, it would only be the education you needed to succeed the next time.
Exactly.
And so you pivot. And that's what we've been saying more often than I've heard in my life lately. That was what it took for us to learn what not to do.
Business & Burgers-Sequence Collection bracelet for National Entrepreneurship Week
