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How did you yourself get started?

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How, as an entrepreneur, I got started when I was 35 years old.

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I was working for a big bank and I was running the mergers and

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acquisitions department, the bank.

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And the bank was going through a soft summer and they did some downsizing

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and they looked at the payroll and I had one of the higher salaries.

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So they fired me, uh, which actually turned out to be the best thing that

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could happen because I walked across the street, uh, got, you know, got

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laid off on Friday, Monday morning.

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I started my own business as investment banking firm and I grew it for 10 years.

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And then I sold it and I moved over here to the United States and became a coach.

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And then, you know, uh, got really mesmerized by this idea of a business

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operating systems and how it can help people who don't have MBAs from business

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schools to actually be at a great business, essentially access all those

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concepts that the MBA guys, the mechanisms teach, but at a much simpler form.

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And, uh, I kind of love this idea of democratizing these highfalutin

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concepts, allowing entrepreneurs access to it, and then help them grow their

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business, take it from the local fast 50 and then to the INC 5000 and then

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even some of them will go to the fortune 500.