Diese Jobs haben mich aufs Unternehmertum vorbereitet

0:00Which of your earliest jobs are playing the biggest role in your current day-to-day? >> I mean, realistically, none of them. Um, like, you know what I mean? Like, I I cherish my time as a blended vendor at Smoothie King. Um, and you know, as a as an Orthodox Jewish caterer, um, and as a, you know, fur coat brusher in a warehouse. But you know, none of those things realistically taught me any skills. Now, I learned through observation to see what some of them were doing. But I would honestly when I tell stories about even the four coat dealer, some of those things I actually had to learn business later and then retroactively looked back at that situation, was like, "Oh, that's what they were doing." Like, I didn't even have the context to make the judgment at the time. And like I remember like in the Smoothie King I was like we would do the sale tally at the end of the day and it was like $2,000 $3,000 every day and it never even registered for me. Like it like I never even thought of it as money. It was just like the number. And there was certain amount that I had to write that was cash and I put that in the safe and then a certain amount that I was like credit cards and you put it in you to tally it up with the cup count or whatever at the end of the day. And I and but like I didn't think about that being a million-dollar business or what the revenue run rate was or what the margins were. or like I didn't think about any of that stuff. I was just trying to I was just trying to like make smoothies.

1:21And so I I'll I'll I'll do a tiny segue for for the audience here is that like I I reject the concept of being a born entrepreneur. I think that we get better at things that we are reinforced for doing period. And the naturalb born entrepreneurs are just typically people who got reinforced for doing entrepreneurial type behaviors earlier. >> So like I was a very security driven person for most of my life. So, like I just had jobs and then I went to college and then I got a white collar job that had prestige around it and the most terrifying thing in the entire world for me was quitting that job. It took me six months to quit a job and I was 22 or 23 and I had $50,000 saved up and I was petrified and to this day was still the most afraid I've ever been in my entire life was quitting that job, which is ridiculous to me now in retrospect, but it was because I had never been rewarded for that. So, it was such a huge change in behavior for me from following the trotten path because I've been rewarded over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for doing what I was told.

2:23>> Makes sense. >> So, I think in some ways the guys who did fail out of school and things like that and then became entrepreneurs, it's like, well, they never got rewarded for following the directions. I had been rewarded for following the directions, which is why it was so much harder for me to quit. M >> real quick I'm going to show you the exact 10stage road map from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish I've now done multiple times and so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as headcount increases that you need to get through and I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business what the constraint feels like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it and then what steps we actually took to graduate and we've done this across software physical products uh service businesses brickandmortar all of this and it works and it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free and so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.com/roadmap, just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you.