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 and where, truthfully, I sometimes go home wondering “Am I misleading people?” like making it seem like entrepreneurship is too easy by bringing people on who made it big and they’re going to talk about how they did it.
Joining me is somebody who would listen to my interviews, who I’ve kind of known a little bit over the years and definitely followed remotely. And then out of nowhere, he puts out this tweetstorm, I guess we’re still calling it, a tweetstorm. It’s a collection of tweets that really moved me and anyone who runs a company should be exposed to them.
I’m going to read a few excerpts. He says, “When my second company, the one that I never talked about failed, I walked away with about $100,000 of credit card debt, severe depression. I drove for...