Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.
I’ve been getting emails from today’s guest for, I guess, the past year. It’s not unsolicited. A friend introduced us because he thought I’d really like today’s guest and that I might want to have him on. There was this one line in one of the emails that intrigued me. He said he was doing $1 million in bookings for speaking. That means he got paid $1 million for speaking. I thought, “That’s not really what Mixergy is about. We don’t cover speakers. We cover tech startups.”
There’s something kind of intriguing about being able to get up on stage, speak and get paid for doing it. Even though it’s not a direct fit, what I’m noticing is that more and more tech entrepreneurs are actually speaking at conferences. It’s a way for entrepreneurs in general to build...