How the guy who retired at age 26 wishes he hadn’t been motivated by money – with Jon Carder

Jon Carder, MOGL, Bootstrapping, Mental Game, Sell Your Business, Wow People

There’s a goal to all this isn’t there? Today’s guest hit that goal. Jon Carder built and sold a company for so much that he was able to retire at age 26.

But after three months, he got bored. Bored. Imagine that. Everything we’re working to achieve ends up being boring. I want to find out why and what did he do to build a company that was so successful that he could sell it and allow himself to do just about anything he wanted with his life.

Jon Carder is the CEO at MOGL.com, a game that hooks you up with cash-back every time you buy from thousands of restaurants in over 250 cities.

Jon Carder

MOGL

Jon Carder is the CEO at MOGL.com, a game that hooks you up with cash-back every time you buy from thousands of restaurants in over 250 cities.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. I’m smiling because I’ve got in my office here as I do this interview Brian Boll and he’s been sitting heads down working on his laptop while I’ve been working, but as soon as I said, “Hey there, freedom fighters . . .” It must have sounded familiar, huh? He suddenly looked up at me.

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who did it. He bootstrapped. He hustled. He worked. He built. He sold. He made phone calls, dealt with all kinds of crises, including a major one and then he sold. And usually when we talk about the struggle of entrepreneurship, we talk about it because there’s a pot at the end of that rainbow.

There’s a goal here. This guy hit that goal. He finally got to retirement. He went off and–well, he’ll tell you what he did. Then he got bored. Bored. Imagine that....

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