Why becoming a first-time entrepreneur after age 50 can be a big advantage

Allan Sutherland, In-telligent, Mobile Apps

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was on a path to being an accountant, which is a respectable plan for life. You’re not likely to go hungry if you’ve got a good accounting job.

And still there was an entrepreneurial yearning inside of him. Even though he’s not a developer, he found a way to develop an app that’s unlike anything before it. And I thought it was interesting how he interviewed developers to figure out who he could make it work.

Allan Sutherland is the founder of In-telligent, a platform that issues emergency messages that are delivered immediately regardless of cell phone settings.

We’re going to go into a story of how he built his company.

Allan Sutherland

In-telligent

Allan Sutherland is the founder of In-telligent, a platform that issues emergency messages that are delivered immediately regardless of cell phone settings.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. By the way, I say freedom fighters because, I was living in Argentina when I really had Mixergy take off and at the time people were so crazy for Che Guevara as the freedom fighter of long time ago. But in reality, the people who are living in Argentina, Che Guevara’s home country, they were looking to entrepreneurs all over the world to rescue them from the isolation that they had. Isolation like they couldn’t send money to people in other countries because of government restrictions because some like established players weren’t allowing them to participate in the online economy. They couldn’t accept payments, stuff like that.

And so I really do believe that entrepreneurs are the people who set others free and also set themselves free. They get on a life and we all do, a life where...

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