I value a lot of things over money. I always have.
When I was four years old, I traded the contents of my piggy bank for a pile of gimp (you remember? the plastic string crap). If that’s not the tell-tale sign of a failed negotiation, I’m not sure what is. My parents were pissed.
Luckily, I’ve become a lot more savvy and entrepreneurial since I was four years old. I see opportunities for upside and am significantly more capable to capitalizing on them. It’s safe to say, I’m no longer trading in all my cash for the raw materials of a plastic bracelet.
But that doesn’t change the fact that this story tells you an important part of who I am.
In late 2017, I ignored this fact and decided I no longer wanted to work at a corporate job. I was unfulfilled and exhausted. So for the next 18 months, I took a detour down a long side-street called Entrepreneurship Blvd.
Like most people in my generation, I thought going out “on my own” would solve all of my biggest problems. And the truth is: it did solve a number of them, but it also created a bunch of new problems.
In this process, I realized our collective view of entrepreneurship is convoluted at best, delusional at worst. Most people, like myself, are focused on the ends, not the…
