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...and this is my calling. So answering the call to adventure against, you know, your parents could be a form of adversity. Maybe you went to the military and you were deployed, and you had to overcome what you saw. That's also interesting. Maybe you we
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...the entrepreneurial drive. A lot of times, like, these big companies, I would just get frustrated because they would move slow where I had all these ideas that just I couldn't get anywhere. And so the drive was always there even though I had more of
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...calling. So answering the call to adventure against, you know, your parents could be a form of adversity. Maybe you went to the military and
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kind of want to be an entrepreneur later. I mean, I have this, should I be an entrepreneur at some point? And if you're, like, thinking whether you should be an entrepreneur, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur. Like, you either are or you aren
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and one that builds a better life for yourself. Those are all transferable skills into entrepreneurship. And so seeing that across my parents and the communities in which they were a part of, to me, when I had the idea for the mentor method or even i
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...entrepreneurial. I always wanted to be at the heart of either starting businesses or being a part of their founding stories. And I remember when I went to Yale to study economics, I was still excited about that idea. I just didn't yet know fully how
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...entrepreneurial journey early. Can you tell us about your first forays into being an entrepreneur? Yeah. Absolutely. My, earliest days were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which is where I was born. And, you know, Baton Rouge is a city that's divided and
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what matters in startups at the moment is your pace, your productivity, your velocity, how fast you can move, and being able to, bring some of the world's best founders here to capitalize on that. It's just a it's a match made in heaven. You created
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You know, it's interesting. I knew I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Right? I tried to start some other businesses in the past. I had tried to start another hotel technology business also in the past, prior to business school, during business sc
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Capital is easy to get. It's everything around it. It's that early stage support that takes you from, I think I have a sort of rough idea, but I don't really know what to do next and don't know how to shape it. And how can you help that person move a
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for his children and or his children to to to marry into families with with this medicine or kinda, like, doctor focused. And he did not want people to be entrepreneurs. And then I talked to, you know, like, my nuclear family, like, you know, my brot
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...some form of entrepreneurial project early. They're thirteen, fourteen building websites. They could be selling cookies at their school, but they start entrepreneurship in some way early. Do you both agree with that? I think that developing the skill
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And they've built, anyway, it's just it's wild. And and so And was this a repeat founder scenario or or not? Yeah. That's great. It's in the context of repeat. Sorry. We got off on these amazing founders. So this was in the, like, build a great build
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at some stage of concluding self funded searches. And it was a little place in Vermont. What are all these people doing there? It's just everywhere. So it's become mainstream. And I think the reason it's become mainstream as a career path is you can
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and I've been an entrepreneur being being a visionary founder is really hard. It's really lonely. You can only talk to your significant other or spouse or brother or mom so much about it. They kinda get tired. And by the way, for most of us, this cre
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or more of the the entrepreneurs that we partner with come from referrals from other entrepreneurs that we have worked with. Yep. And so, like, talk about doing the work and not talking about the work. Like, they feel that. And I think a part of why
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There's no w two. It's like so and so. Here's your bike. Right. Here's $20. Great. Thanks very much. And again, back to your earlier question, was the was what what the economic sound at that stage of the business? No. Absolutely not. This story make
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...where your entrepreneurial spirit came from. I think it comes from my dad. My dad is an entrepreneur. We moved from Korea when I was three. This was, yeah, in the eighties. And he actually moved to Seattle as an expat. So he was working for a big Kor
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You know, this was a a really great way for me to, you know, leave an impact, a mark, and ultimately, fulfill the promise of of why I founded the business. So what's next? So landed that plane. I'm just starting to think about takeoff for my next jou
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