Andy Walsh moved to New York with a four-month-old and a bootstrapped startup, calling it a "trifecta of chaos." He stayed confident because he believed in what he was building. For him, success isn't a big exit but the daily satisfaction of the work itself.
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I tell you, and it's in the moment, and I've made some huge changes. I was talking to someone recently about my personal story. I'd started a business in Australia. I moved to New York City with a 4-month-old child, bootstrapping my startup. And you talk about life challenges all happening concurrently with a brand new baby, new city, new business. It's a trifecta of chaos. And for me, I never thought twice about it because I had such conviction and purpose around what I was doing that I knew it was going to work out. And work out for me didn't mean that I would create a business and sell it for hundreds of millions of dollars. It was actually having satisfaction in my day-to-day life of something that I genuinely believe in.