Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.
And I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur since I was a kid. In fact, my parents didn’t have cable, but somehow we ended up getting junkie shows like “The Jeffersons.” And I loved it because George Jefferson was an entrepreneur who built himself up, lived in the penthouse apartment and wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, including slamming the door in the faces of people who he disagreed with or he didn’t want to waste his time with. To me, that kind of attitude was what led to success.
That’s what I learned, not just from “The Jeffersons,” which is a silly little TV show, but from movies, from often a lot of times from books, biographies of my heroes. They would always reveal like the negative side of business and I would think, “All right, that’s the truth. You have to be that kind of aggressive person.” And I tried...